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Originally Posted by beppe
I want to add two comments to this thread.
About literary prizes
in my country, that has a decent tradition and a normal level of fruition, there are several literary prizes. I make a point of honor not to read the books that are acclaimed, and to look with suspicion at the laureates. I got the impression that the prizes are in large part a PR/marketing operation, and in the remaining part maneuvers of territorial occupation by "political" sects. "political" is intended in the most unspecified sense. "sects" literary (a pun)
I wonder if in US, Commonwealth and Scandinavia these observations could be shared and in which measure. I tend to trust more those than the Latins, but somehow I am skeptical.
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That's a good summary of how I view such awards in the UK.
I'd also include the Nobel Prize for Literature as one that often seems to have a 'political' subtext to it.