Nobel for Literature

[David Morris]

Rooting around for hints about tomorrow's anouncement I stumbled onto this:

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/lib_nobel.html

William Faulkner officially earned the Nobel Prize in Literature for the 
year 1949, but he did not receive it until the following year, because the 
Nobel Prize committee could not reach a consensus in 1949. Hence, two Nobel 
prizes were awarded in 1950, for the prior year and for the present one. The 
speech Faulkner delivered was not immediately intelligible to his listeners, 
both because of Faulkner's southern dialect and because the microphone was 
too distant from his mouth, but when it was printed in newspapers the 
following day, it was immediately hailed as one of the most significant 
addresses ever delivered at a Nobel ceremony.



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