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NZ Strider
Rivendell
Feb 11 2013, 7:27am
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Just a minor, supplementary point: The Nobel Prize Committee
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has also scorned a large number of authors whose high status in the "academy" is by now well-established: Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, and Isak Dinesen (Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke) all failed to win a Nobel. No committee of critics is perfect, and with hindsight it becomes ever clearer what egregious mistakes the Nobel Prize Committee has made over the decades. On the other hand, a large number of its choices has stood the test of time: Thomas Mann, Rudyard Kipling, and William Faulkner come to mind. So it's not all bad; and Tolkien is in very good company with Hardy, Conrad, Kafka, and Baroness von Blixen-Finecke to talk to.
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Why do some people say that Tolkien wasn't a writer?
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Rane
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Feb 2 2013, 1:19am
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No accounting for taste.
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Elizabeth
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Feb 2 2013, 2:38am
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He has certainty lasted a long time!
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Eowyn3
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Feb 2 2013, 6:31am
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What is great literature?
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Angharad73
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Feb 2 2013, 10:39am
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I wonder if they regret their decision
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Rane
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Feb 2 2013, 9:19pm
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What makes a writer...
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Angharad73
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Feb 2 2013, 10:01pm
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What about it?
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sador
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Feb 3 2013, 8:01am
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I think it's a matter of opinion -
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geordie
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Feb 3 2013, 9:47am
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Well put
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squire
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Feb 3 2013, 2:21pm
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Also well put.
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Elizabeth
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Feb 3 2013, 6:59pm
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Some critical reviews...
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Morthoron
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Feb 7 2013, 3:07am
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Unfortunately, Tolkien will never win it.
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macfalk
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Feb 3 2013, 12:05pm
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Tolkien never will win the Nobel Prize for Literature
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geordie
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Feb 3 2013, 12:48pm
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The Nobel Prize has been awarded posthumously
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macfalk
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Feb 3 2013, 3:40pm
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Just a minor, supplementary point: The Nobel Prize Committee
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NZ Strider
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Feb 11 2013, 7:27am
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I heard that too
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Sam20
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Feb 27 2013, 5:31pm
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