Is the noble prize given to the deserving?

[blazeofglory]

No, and history endorses its flaws. I do not the noble prize committee had made right decisions mos of the times. Most of their decisions were flawed and all those who really deserved it were skipped.

Of course the committee has always a few persons in their mind in nominating eligible candidates or nominees. Those who were really meritorious were skirted Like Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell, James Joyce, Proust, Virginia wolf and the like. I think the committee is formed of people who have no capacity for judging. The noble prize issue has been politicized.

The noble prize must not be given the weight or gravity which it does not deserve, and until the committee can not be constituted of intellectuals representing outsiders other than the few influencing people of the Swedish Academy it will keep on being discriminatory.

Most of the prizes, particularly in the domain of literature goes to the west or the writers from the west. Creative writers can be born anywhere, and not necessary that just the west manufacture such writers and the east runs short of such writers.

Once they awarded Tagore, a Bengali writer. There are great writers in the east who do not write in European languages but it does not mean that they do not merit the noble prize.


The east is richer when it comes to human sciences than the west and the one and only problem is the language issue. There are really amazing writers and they had not even been nominated.

I do not think there has been a fair judgment when it comes to selecting, nominating a suitable candidate.

Shame on them to skip the most deserving.

[caddy_caddy]

Shame on them to skip the most deserving
It is the first time I feel u are really upset :)
Take it easy ; this is our life ,u can't rely on the justice of the human beings;actually there is no justice in this world --there ,only there.

[Jilvin]

Orwell should have won.

On another subject of Nobel Prizes, I was shocked to see the Peace Prize was never awarded to Ghandi.

[toology514]

The nobel prize has more to do with politics than merit.

[Remarkable]

I do agree with all of you but oficcially the Nobel Prize is political...So you can't say anything...There are lots of other prizes and that's it...

[chasestalling]

it's not in my line to grandstand but just this once i'll make an exception.

gabriel garcia Marquez; need i say more.

[NickAdams]

I don't think they judge on the merits of the form, in which Joyce should have won and Hemingway did in fact win for that reason, but on the humanity of the content. It's easy to see how they passed on Joyce since his last two books were seen as smut and incomprehensible when they were first published. The Nobel prize for literature is given to those who promote Nobel's western values. The Nobel prize is not something I give much importance to since it judges literature on the message that is transmitted through the medium and not the medium itself.