Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
October 01, 2008 • Wednesday
According to Horace Engdahl — permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which determines the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature — the United States is "too isolated" and "too insular" to produce world-class writers.
His premise might hold some truth, but his conclusion is drawing plenty of criticism from American literary experts.
See the Associated Press' article "Nobel literature head: US too insular to compete."
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Still busy here. US Open is over, have been covering golf, wrapping the book, writing for magazines, and looking forward to some work in Cape Cod and Maine this fall.
More soon.
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