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The Slippery Politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Politics of Everything

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The Nobel Prize Is a Good Prize, but You Can't Have Too Many Snubs

Bob Dylan has never had never won the Nobel Prize before. He's also working in a medium that is much more popular than written literature. The prize must be balancing things constantly, he says. You have to give it to a popular writer or someone who has an acclaim and then you have to mix it in with all these kind of other people.

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