It may be literature’s greatest honor, but the Nobel Prize has sometimes drawn negative attention to writers, too. Bob Dylan Some critics claim the 2016 Nobel winner was undeserving because his songs contain unattributed work from others. Others believed the groundbreaking folk artist belonged more to the world of pop music than to that of letters. Harold Pinter The English playwright was slammed for his left-wing politics and sometimes scatological point of view. Elfriede Jelinek One Nobel member was so upset about the consideration given to this “chaotic and pornographic” Austrian writer that he refused to participate in the deliberations.
- 10/14/2016
- by Scott Collins
- The Wrap
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