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From: The Sunday Herald
Date: 20020407
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THE Nobel literature academy has made many curious decisions in the 101 years since it came into existence. In 1901, for instance, it gave the inaugural prize to Rene Franois-Armand-Sully Prudhomme, whose present obscurity is well-deserved. Others favoured by the Swedish sages include such seminal writers as Selma Lagerlf, Grazia Deledda and Pearl S Buck, while James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Leo Tolstoy were all deemed unworthy.

Despite the pre-eminence of the English language, very few British writers have won the Nobel laureateship - a notable exception being John Galsworthy ...

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