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Of the Literature Nobel Prize winners, which do you think ACTUALLY deserved it?

>> No.12817397

Obama.

>> No.12817405

Pontoppidan.

>> No.12817410

Kropotkin and Bookchin

>> No.12817415

Bob Dylan

>> No.12817414

kim jong un

>> No.12817417

Camus, Borges, Hemingway deserved it, but not for "Old Man and the Sea", Marquez, Miłosz

>> No.12817418

Morrissey

>> No.12817425
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12817425

Haven't read many of these but I would give Elias Canetti a reward if I could.

>> No.12817428

>>12817417
>Marquez

>> No.12817444

>Beckett
Author of lovely novellas
>Pasternak
An excellent poet

>> No.12817458

Saint-John Perse. Up there with Char and Glissant and Michaux etc as one of the greatest 20th century french (language) poet.

>> No.12817501

O'Neil, Kawabata, Faulkner, Hesse, Eliot, Kawabata, Kioling, Walcott, Naipaul, Hamsun, Yeats, Mann, Beckett, Hemingway, Marquez

Did not deserve the award: Any French author, Shaw, Buck, Lessing, Golding, Yan, Padternak, Steinbeck, Solzhenitsyn, Neruda, Oe, Dylan

>> No.12817507

>>12817501
>Marquez

>> No.12817521

>>12817428
>>12817507
Buttmad Venezuelan

>> No.12817525

>>12817501
>Kawabata

>> No.12817528

>>12817521
stupid

>> No.12817707

>12817501
>Naipaul over Claude Simon
wew lad

>> No.12817750

>>12817525
Kawabata is one of the most deserving of that selection.

>> No.12817762

>>12817501
forgot toni morrison in the did not deserve category

>> No.12817769

>>12817762
She deserved over everyone else I listed there and those two Swedish guys who awarded themselves too.

>> No.12817792

>>12817769
>those two Swedish guys who awarded themselves
>two
of the 7 swedish winners 4 were members of the academy when receiving the prize

>> No.12817857

>>12817363
Tagore, Kawabata, Saint-John Perse, Yeats, Faulkner, Beckett, Mann, Simon, Eliot

>> No.12818009

>>12817363
there’s a lot of them lol.

>> No.12819146

>>12817417
it's unbelievable how Camus is overrated in the US

>> No.12819194

Grass

>> No.12819992

>>12817363
Grass, Coetzee, Morrison, Faulkner, Oe, Basedinka, Garcia Marquez, Kawabata, Heaney, Bergson, Tagore.

Who did not deserve it? Bob Dylan, Pamuk, Golding, Hesse, Hemingway

Who should win it? Krasznahorkai, Rushdie (for work up to and including the Moor's Last Sigh, unfortunately he probably won't win it because of fatwa and everything he wrote after 1996), David Mitchell, Rachel Cusk, Maybe John Keene we'll have to see what else he publishes,

Who should have won it but died without winning? Sebald, Derrida, Said, Berger, Larkin

>> No.12820048

>>12819992
>David Mitchell, Rachel Cusk, Maybe John Keene
Jfc...

>> No.12820052

>>12817410
based anarchist tripfag.

>> No.12820064

>>12819992
>Who should have won it but died without winning?
Pretty much all major poets desu. Dylan was worth the prize.

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12820919

>rewards

>> No.12821028

Carducci
Hamsun
YEATS
Shaw
MANN
PIRANDELLO
GIDE
ELIOT
Faulkner
Jimenez
Pasternak
Quasimodo
Perse
Seferis
Beckett
Soljenitsin
MONTALE
Bellow
Aleixandre
Elytis
MILOSZ
Brodsky
Cela
PAZ
Walcott
HEANEY
Szymborska
NOT FO
Coetzee
Transtromer

>> No.12821193

>>12821028
>Shaw
>HEANEY
>Soljenitsin