/lit/ - Literature

Harry Martinsson killed himself due to the controversy of receiving the Noble Prize in literature while being a member of the academy himself.
>The sensitive Martinson found it hard to cope with the criticism following his 1974 Nobel Prize award in Literature, and committed suicide on 11 February 1978 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm by cutting his stomach open with a pair of scissors in what has been described as a "hara-kiri-like manner".[14][15]

>The joint selection of Eyvind Johnson and Martinson for the Nobel Prize in 1974[3] was very controversial as both were members of the Swedish Academy and thus on the Nobel panel.[2] Graham Greene, Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov were the favoured candidates that year.[13]

>The sensitive Martinson found it hard to cope with the criticism following his award, and committed suicide on 11 February 1978 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm by cutting his stomach open with a pair of scissors in what has been described as a "hara-kiri-like manner".[14][15

>committed suicide on 11 February 1978 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm by cutting his stomach open with a pair of scissors

Vad är det här för jävla skit

>>9621918
>"Eyvind old boy, I have a great idea. We're both part of the Academy. Why don't we give the prize to ourselves?"

What a fag
>muh science