“Are the Nobel Prize-givers anti-American?” a feature in The Telegraph begins. “They have, after all, ignored giants of American literature, including Mark Twain, Henry James and John Updike. There have certainly been currents of anti-Americanism in the pronouncements from the Swedish Academy. In 2008, Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary at the time, declared: “The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don’t translate enough and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining.”

So are comments like that.

Updike was #10 on The Telegraph‘s list. The top snub was Leo Tolstoy, followed by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, WH Auden, Primo Levi, and Chinua Achebe.

“10 great writers snubbed by the Nobel Prize”