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September 30, 2008
Eurosnob: America Is Too Provincial for Nobel Lit Prize
Posted by Dave Blount at September 30, 2008 8:08 PM
American moonbattery is sufficiently fulsome to produce Nobel Peace Prize winners like Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, but when it comes to Literature, our prize-winning days appear to be behind us for now. Sniffs Horace Engdahl of the Swedish Academy:
The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining.
Obscenity-laced doggerel comparing the USA to Nazi Germany might win you a Nobel Prize if you're Harold Pinter, but not if you're a measly American.
On the bright side, if Barack Obama is elected, Europeans will like us more. Unfortunately, we'll like ourselves a lot less.
Engdahl's squishy-soft face cries out for a pie.
On a tip from Adrian.
