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Descriptive rather than analytic in its approach, this article attempts to examine some aspects of cultural politics regarding the nominations and selections of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It argues that the Nobel Committee and the Swedish Academy have exerted an enormous power in ...

Descriptive rather than analytic in its approach, this article attempts to examine some aspects of cultural politics regarding the nominations and selections of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It argues that the Nobel Committee and the Swedish Academy have exerted an enormous power in the field of the politics of culture in the name of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced “in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction,” the prize has attracted serious criticism in recent years for a variety of reasons. Some reasons for criticism include somewhat arbitrary interpretations of the will of Nobel―that is, the Nobel Committee, together with the Swedish Academy, has interpreted the intent of the will either too strictly or too loosely. This article further argues that controversies about Nobel Laureate selections are diverse: 1) the selections of the winners have been more often than not politically motivated; 2) the Nobel Committee has been not a little biased as Eurocentric, and 3) the Committee has not adequately recognized popular literature and children"s literature, thus arguably paying too much attention to the so-called “pure” literary genres.

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