Comment by Nobel Jury member

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As the Swedish Academy enters final deliberations for this year's award, permanent secretary Horace Engdahl said the United States is too insular and ignorant to compete with Europe when it comes to great writing. The comments have invoked fuming response from many with in US.

Comment by Nobel Jury member

Anybody who has read Mark Twain, will be fast to point out his famous quotation "Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen; Even if it contains no other book". The quotation tells us about the hyperbole attached with the decisions of the some people who have taken up the power to tell us what is good or bad. And United States have been a sufferer in this regard. Why not how much United States has always been in forefront in supporting creativity and writers like Bukowaski, Hemmingway, Bellow, John Steinbeck, Toni Morrison, De lillo, Roth, Updike, Pynchon, etc. have produced path breakers .. such names have never found the deserved appreciation. It is a shame that a high member of award jury says that United States is too insular and ignorant to compete with Europe.

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