{"id":2530,"date":"2014-10-10T07:43:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T12:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2014-10-10T07:43:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T12:43:55","slug":"updike-listed-among-10-great-writers-snubbed-by-the-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/10\/10\/updike-listed-among-10-great-writers-snubbed-by-the-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike listed among 10 Great Writers Snubbed by the Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are the Nobel Prize-givers anti-American?&#8221; a feature in <em>The Telegraph<\/em> begins. &#8220;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: &#8220;The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don&#8217;t translate enough and don&#8217;t really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So are comments like that.<\/p>\n<p>Updike was #10 on <em>The Telegraph<\/em>&#8216;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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/culturepicturegalleries\/10367682\/10-great-writers-snubbed-by-the-Nobel-Prize.html?frame=2697558\">&#8220;10 great writers snubbed by the Nobel Prize&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are the Nobel Prize-givers anti-American?&#8221; a feature in The Telegraph begins. &#8220;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/10\/10\/updike-listed-among-10-great-writers-snubbed-by-the-nobel-prize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}