BREAKING: Nobel Prize for Literature continues descent into irrelevancy

[minionofmidas]

Never heard of the German writer they gave it to.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Neither did I neither in this thread.

[Beet]

It definitely should have gone to Dan Brown.

[GMantis]

She is an Anti-Communist writer - this automatically raises one's chances to win the Nobel Prize.

[GMantis]

Nobel prize is generally considered to be a Communist prize.

This is probably the reason why so many anti-Communists have received it during the years.

[k-onmmunist]

She is an Anti-Communist writer - this automatically raises one's chances to win the Nobel Prize.

And so it should.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

She is an Anti-Communist writer - this automatically raises one's chances to win the Nobel Prize.

And so it should.

It should have no impact.

[ag]

She is an Anti-Communist writer - this automatically raises one's chances to win the Nobel Prize.

And so it should.

It should have no impact.

And such is the case.

[ChrisJG777]

She is an Anti-Communist writer - this automatically raises one's chances to win the Nobel Prize.

It really shouldn't.

Fixed your post.

[Gustaf]

Where does this communism-conspiracy theories come from?

[minionofmidas]

There seem to be a lot of lefties winning it, both Communist and non (or even anti) Communist.

Saramago (a commie), Fò, Grass, Jelinek...

[Stranger in a strange land]

Yeah, Jelinek is member even member of KPÖ. During Cold War there were some notable dissidents who got the prize (Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn and Milosz and Brodsky). On the other hand there were some openly communist prizes, like for Neruda, Sartre and Soholov.

also, Harold Pinter, while not actually a Communist, was very much of the left.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah, Jelinek is member even member of KPÖ. During Cold War there were some notable dissidents who got the prize (Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn and Milosz and Brodsky). On the other hand there were some openly communist prizes, like for Neruda, Sartre and Soholov.

also, Harold Pinter, while not actually a Communist, was very much of the left.

And, yet, voted Tory in 1979. To his eternal shame, I believe.

[Gustaf]

Sartre refused to accept the prize because it was so bourgoise. Then he came back later and wanted the money but the Academy said no.