Not P who will never win for Literature but a plea for Peace (via Lit Prizes Past. This is off to the Washington Post but y'all can write or call or telegraph the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

[Mark Kohut]

A couple good reader-editors have helped me improve this, just sayin'.


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> On Mar 4, 2022, at 5:58 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> March 4, 2022
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> Letters Editor
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> Washington Post
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> Dear Washington Post,
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>                            Open Letter to the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize
> Committee
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>          President Zelensky of Ukraine is inspiring the whole world in his
> fight for peace. We all know his life is in danger from Vladimir Putin. Is
> there anything more we can do?
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>           I think of the Nobel Prize, that fully global judging of who
> does it best in all kinds of fields. You have never seen so many
> microphones and cameras clipped on stands, or held by a large room of
> reporters from all over the world unless you have watched the Swedish
> Academy announce prizewinners early in the US morning.
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> If Pres Zelensky is still alive by October he has to win this year’s Nobel
> Prize. No contest, right? Even though the deadline for nominations,
> February 1, had passed before
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> his heroism for his country and the world was manifested. Extraordinary
> times mean extraordinary decisions, Committee. As Sweden and other
> countries have done already.
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> I think back on some Nobel Prize winners for Literature. How Boris
> Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago was secretly gotten to the Academy judges even
> before it was published so that that achievement, added to his poetry and
> other work could be certainly known and cited for his award. Perhaps the
> Soviet Union let him live (although they jailed him and he could not go to
> get his Prize) because his death would antagonize the world against their
> government?
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>             Truth-writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, another Nobel Prize
> winner from Russia was driven into exile to Germany in 1974,  after one
> earlier failed assassination attempt. Who is to
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> say why the Soviets spared his life, but perhaps that international Prize
> beacon of honor helped? A martyr against a system is never forgotten; the
> whole world knows forever.
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>             Norwegian Committee: This American democrat with an Ukrainian
> heritage asks you to make a special exception to your normal timeline to
> award the Nobel Prize as soon as possible to President Zelensky for his
> defense of all that the Academy stands for: Democracy itself.
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> He doesn’t need a free ride to October—he needs the worldwide publicity
> ammunition to stay alive past then..
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> Sincerely,
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> Mark Kohut
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> Shepherdstown, WV
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> USA
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