The Slippery Politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature
The Politics of Everything
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The Nobel Prize
The prize is administered by the Swedish Academy, which I believe is formed in 1786. They have their own internal guidelines and those guidelines for the prize were created as part of this bequest by Alfred Nobel. There's sort of a feeling that it is a political decision who you give it to but it's not an incredibly clear cut political decision. The committee really does not want to be seen to be pressured in any way.
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