Just over a year ago, a handful of Swedish writers and academics gathered to begin the secretive process of selecting this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The group was tiny — there were only five full members — and its lack of diversity would have outraged the leaders of #OscarsSoWhite and Black Lives Matter: each of the participants was over age 50, each was white, each Scandinavian. Among them were Per Wästberg, 82, a former editor-in-chief of Sweden’s biggest newspaper; Kjell Espmark, 86, a literary historian and professor at Stockholm University; and Horace Engdahl, 67,
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- 10/24/2016
- by Stephen Galloway
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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