Another reason why TR Pynchon will never win.

[Johnny Marr]

I think the decision to award the prize to Bob Dylan was the Academy’s way
of saying “we don’t think much of the 1930s-born American novelists (Toni
Morrison aside)”. Doubt anyone from that generation will win the prize now.

I was pleased Kazuo Ishiguro won last year, although if you’d told me in
advance there was to be a British winner I’d have guessed Tom Stoppard.

On Monday, April 30, 2018, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> And it is NOT because the Prize may be skipped but it is because his key
> deep themes of power & domination
> *can't be felt--until too late--by the Academy of Great Readers. So to
> speak. (And I don't believe for five seconds that they will not choose a
> winner*
> *this year. Yeah, two next year to remind everyone of why none this year,
> lol. We'll see.  I think it is just scare publicity to raise the interest.
> Like when famous actors will be in their last movie, and it ain't and like
> that) *
>
> *There have been stories all over about the harassment crimes/scandals and
> if you haven't run across one, google is your friend. *
> *Yeah, "at its functions". *
>
>
> 2018 Nobel Literature Prize May Be Skipped
>
> The crisis at the Swedish Academy has become so serious that the head of
> the panel that awards the literature prize--the most prestigious book award
> in the world--has said the prize may not be awarded this year
> <https://www.thebookseller.com/news/sex-scandal-
> jeopardises-2018-nobel-prize-literature-776416>,
> the *Bookseller* reported.
>
> At the core of the crisis are accusations of assault by 18 women "against
> French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, who is married to an Academy
> member, Katarina Frostenson. Arnault has denied the allegations. The
> photographer is also accused of being part of a breach of the Academy's
> secrecy rules by leaking the names of past Nobel prize-winners in advance,
> which again he has denied."
>
> In addition, the Swedish Academy last week released a statement confirming
> that "unacceptable behavior in the form of unwanted intimacy" had taken
> place at its functions and that the literature prize's reputation had
> "suffered greatly" from publicity surrounding recent events.
>
> The Academy meets on Thursday, May 3, to decide whether or not to award a
> prize this October. If it doesn't award a prize in 2018, it would award two
> prizes for literature in 2019.
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