State Patrol trooper killed, 3rd grader shot,crime is up?

[HollandofFrance]

very easy to google-july 4th whites attacked

in akron and two i forgot about already

http://www.ohio.com/news/akron-police-in...y-1.142665

https://www.google.com/search?q=july+4th...=firefox-a

mainstream news didnt talk about it?if black victim they would?

[Inchante]

Engdahl's position is not particularly controversial either. Do Americans imagine that their literature is widely read outside of the English speaking world. Americans have not had a major impact on international literature since the 30s.

Actually, Engdahl’s position on that particular topic has been condemned by the current chair of the committee. You know, I have a great amount of respect for you, but you keep repeating this odd notion about American Literature. (Though, last time it was more confined; it was along the lines that little American literature was read outside of the United States. I am glad to see that you have expanded that notion to the English speaking world, but you are still far from the facts.) No, we don’t imagine our literature is widely read outside of the English speaking world, we know for a fact that it is widely read outside of the English speaking world.

From an article in “The New Yorker” (The authors mentioned are certainly not the apex of American literary, but if they are being published in translation, then you can bet that--as the article states--the less commercial writers are too):

There has been a hegemony for years of English-language books being translated into many other languages, a cultural phenomenon comparable (though much smaller in scale) to US dominance of the worldwide film market. Bestselling American authors like Michael Crichton and John Grisham and Danielle Steele and Stephen King have, in translation, reliably topped bestseller lists around the world. As the market for matching these authors to publishers abroad matured, it opened the door to less commercial writers and other genres.

But really, this bit about American Literature is neither here nor there. Now, back to the actual question at hand, the political nature of the Nobel Prize for Literature. I think this shows a consistent history of political bias (not necessarily in the support of Nobel's original ideal), a bias towar Swedish and European authors, as well as some rather questionable ethics.

1. The academy considered Czech writer Karel Čapek's "War With the Newts" too offensive to the German government. He also declined to suggest some noncontroversial publication that could be cited as an example of his work, stating "Thank you for the good will, but I have already written my doctoral dissertation". He was thus denied the prize.

2. In 1974 Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, and Saul Bellow were considered but rejected in favor of a joint award for Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, both Nobel judges themselves, and unknown outside their home country. Bellow would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976; neither Greene nor Nabokov was awarded the Prize

3. Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was nominated for the Prize several times but, as Edwin Williamson, Borges's biographer, states, the Academy did not award it to him, most likely because of his support of certain Argentine and Chilean right-wing military dictators, includingPinochet, which, according to Tóibín's review of Williamson's Borges: A Life, had complex social and personal contexts. Borges' failure to win the Nobel Prize for his support of these right-wing dictators contrasts with the Committee honoring writers who openly supported controversial left-wing dictatorships, including Joseph Stalin, in the case of Sartre and Neruda.
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4. There was also criticism of the academy's refusal to express support for Salman Rushdie in 1989, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued afatwa calling for Rushdie to be killed. Two members of the Academy even resigned over its refusal to support Rushdie.

5. The selection of Harold Pinter for the Prize in 2005 was delayed for a couple of days, apparently due to Ahnlund's resignation, and led to renewed speculations about there being a "political element" in the Swedish Academy's awarding of the Prize. Although Pinter was unable to give his controversial Nobel Lecture in person because of ill health, he delivered it from a television studio on video projected on screens to an audience at the Swedish Academy, in Stockholm. His comments have been the source of much commentary and debate. The issue of their "political stance" was also raised in response to the awards of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Orhan Pamuk and Doris Lessing in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

6. The heavy focus on European authors, and authors from Sweden in particular, has been the subject of mounting criticism, even from major Swedish newspapers. The absolute majority of the laureates have been European, with Sweden itself receiving more prizes than all of Asia, as well as all of Latin America.