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Default Re: Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 Speculation

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Originally Posted by Clarissa View Post
Not sure she would have deserved it more than Primo Levi. Never could make out why they gave it to Imré Kertsz for lit. and Elie Wiesel for Peace, if you please. If they felt they had to give it to Holocaust lit., it should most definitely have gone to Primo Levi.
That does not make any sense. Do you think they planned for decades to give SOME shoah lit a nobel and planned to do it in the 00's, which is the reason why they snubbed Levi? Levi died in 87, around the time when Kertesz' work gained recognition. From reading the deliberations for some older prizes, I assume his name came up for the second or third time, and enough people were convinced he merited it then and there to give him the prize. Primo Levi can't of entered such a discussion.
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