October 10, 2005

Nobel

The legendarily secretive Nobel Prize crew is, apparently, not that secretive.

The secretive group of intellectuals who award the Nobel Prize for literature have delayed their decision for at least a week amid reports of a split over honouring the controversial Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk.

For the first time in at least 10 years, the literature prize was announced neither in the run-up to, nor in the same week as the four other main Nobel awards - medicine, physics, chemistry and peace. Each marks the pinnacle of achievement in its field and is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (£730,000).

For an explanation of why Pamuk would be a controversial choice, see The Millions and The Reading Experience.

And, of course, the Literary Saloon is all over this.

Oct 10, 2005 9:39:39 AM

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