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Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, at his office in Stockholm.
Thursday, Oct. 02, 2008

Open quoteThat ignorance is restraining.Close quote

  • HORACE ENGDAHL,
  • permanent secretary of the Nobel Prize jury, blaming America's insularity for the fact that a U.S. author has not won a Nobel Prize for literature in 15 years
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