The Slippery Politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Politics of Everything
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The Nobel Prize for Freedom of Expression
There is a case to be made for Salman Rushdie's free expression. But it's not the Nobel Prize for bravest speech, he says. One Swedish person said that it would be tasteless if they gave it to Rushdie. The committee members tend to be people in Sweden who are connected in the publishing industry.
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