Shocking ideas and safe jobs: what makes a Nobel author?

Jane Messer

Shocking ideas and safe jobs: what makes a Nobel author?

Jane Messer

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When something is wrong in the world of literature, who better to blame than the writers? Nobel Prize for Literature judge Horace Engdahl said this week, only days before the award was given to French writer Patrick Modiano, that American and European literature is today characterised by writing which does not transgress anything – but only pretends to.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2014

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literature
books
creative writing
Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel Prize 2014

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Shocking ideas and safe jobs: what makes a Nobel author?

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