Do We Need the Nobel?: An Exchange
Tim Parks and Per Wästberg
DECEMBER 22, 2011 ISSUE

In a letter to the editors, Per Wästberg, the president of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee for Literature, has responded to a NYRblog post by Tim Parks about the Nobel Prize for Literature.*

The post was published on October 6, the day the committee announced that this year’s prize would go to Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. We publish here a text based on Parks’s blog post, Per Wästberg’s letter, and a rejoinder by Tim Parks.

—The Editor

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/dec/22/do-we-need-nobel-exchange/