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Because the Nobel committee felt his writing expressed "universal human conditions". According to the official Nobel Prize website: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 was awarded to Isaac Bashevis ...

Alfred Nobel's will states that [Priset] [...] för litteratur [utdelas] af Akademien i Stockholm[...] or, in English The award for Literature shall be awarded by the Academy in Stockholm All ...

In what ways do the winners of these three awards differ? These three awards are very different, and it's rare that an author collects more than one of the three. The most obvious difference is the ...

I think there were several factors here, though of course we don't know all of them. Not really niche Firstly, I'd like to address the point of audience. While you say The audience of his brilliant ...

TLDR: Contrary to the OP's assumptions, being nominated for a Nobel Prize and being shortlisted for one are two quite different things. We know some of the nominees for Nobel Prizes because their ...

The records of the discussions of the Swedish Academy are kept secret for 50 years, meaning that as of the time I'm writing this, the last laureates for which we actually have any real insight into ...

Just to add a subtly here, "encyclopedic knowledge" doesn't just refer to vast knowledge, it refers to comprehensive knowledge. (You could have lots of knowledge about a very narrow topic, but that ...

The identities of nominating bodies are a strictly held secret. The statutes of the Nobel Foundation restrict disclosure of information about the nominations, whether publicly or privately, for 50 ...

Narratives come in many shapes/forms/sizes. It’s fairly common for a book to be written (mostly) linearly. It’s also common for an author to stick with a specific set of related characters. (See books ...