October 07, 2004

Those Wacky Swedes

And the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to...some Austrian. The article tells us that

Her latest play, "Bambiland," written in 2003 and translated into English in 2004, is a relentless attack on the U.S. war in Iraq, although Horace Engdahl, secretary-general of the academy, emphasized that the prize should not be interpreted as a political comment.
Whew. That's a relief. I'd hate to think that Nobel Prizes were political

Posted by David at October 7, 2004 12:46 PM | TrackBack
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I believe Yasser Arafat's Nobel Prize was for an off-Broadway musical he wrote. Also non-political.

Posted by: RobbL Monkey at October 7, 2004 09:21 PM

Good take down of Elfie Jelinek at the Independent Women's Forum:

http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/default.asp?archiveID=823

Posted by: JamesPh. at October 8, 2004 01:41 PM
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