Nobel prize for literature

[David Morris]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2011/oct/03/nobel-prize-literature-peter-englund-podcast

Podcast:  Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish
Academy, talks about the difficulties in choosing the Nobel prize for
literature

When Peter Englund came in to the Guardian earlier this year to talk
about his novelistic history of the first world war, he also spoke
about his role as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy – the
secretive body which chooses the winner of the Nobel prize for
literature.

He talks about the difficulty of balancing literary quality and
cultural significance, the Academy's undercover translation project,
the awkward lack of women laureates and whether Philip Roth will ever
win the Nobel prize.