/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20577325]

The Nobel Prize in Literature is heavily biased towards Westerners, especially Western Europeans, and most especially towards Swedes. For example, the United States has won thirteen Nobel Prizes in Literature, which is nothing to sneeze at; however, Sweden has won eight Nobel Prizes in Literature. This is despite the fact that the US has a population 33x that of Sweden. And the US doesn't have it as bad as countries elsewhere in the Americas, Asia, and Africa.

An even more egregious disparity becomes apparent when one considers Latin America, which has produced only three Nobel laureates in literature (less than half of Sweden's number), despite having a population 64x that of Sweden. While the low numbers for Africa can perhaps be attributed to the relatively recent arrival of written literature to most of that continent, Latin America has been a literary powerhouse for well over a century, yet, in terms of the Nobel Prize, it has nothing to show for it.

[Anonymous No.20577329]

>>20577325
didn't a nigger just win last year?

[Anonymous No.20577348]

>>20577329
That's the exception that proves the rule; Gurnah is one of only a few writers of African origin to ever win, and more importantly, he's based in the UK.

[Anonymous No.20577351]

>>20577329
They have to throw the niggers a bone every now and then or they would chimp out

[Anonymous No.20577372]

Let’s meme F Gardner into winning the Nobel prize.

[Anonymous No.20577725]

>>20577325
The US is a poverty stricken, anti-intelectual, educationless shithole, and your post reeks of unearned entitlement.

[Anonymous No.20577738]

Sometimes it's a direct CIA op, like Pasternak, but most of the time it's just incompetence in its own right.