question about the Nobel Prize in Literature
by Victor Abruzzi
Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2002-03-07 23:20:00
Hi,
I have a WILD question that is going around in my head, I wonder if you could please help me answer it :
How does the judging committee decide what author or writer should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for a year?
What intrigues me the most is how do they manage to compare authors who write in different languages. Here are some examples :
– Claude Simon (1985) (French language)
– Octavio Paz (1990) (Spanish language)
– Seamus Heaney (1995) (English language)
– Gunther Grass (1999) (German language)
– Gao Xingjian (2000) (Chinese language)
Regards
V.A.