Comments on: 10 Brilliant Writers Robbed of a Nobel Prize

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By: chiranjib

chiranjib — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:06:54 +0000

Hey, it was in physics too; they were adamant to refuse to award it to Einstein( instead giving it to an unknown engineer researching on a minor improvement of lighthouses. his only qualification- he was Swedish).

Later there was one guy( I can’t remember his name) who did not like QM and tried to rob Dirac, Heisenberg and Schrodinger of their due prizes; instead he did not award that prize at all.(imagine, it implies physics in 1931 was unproductive; anybody with a modest amount of knowledge in physics knows that time was the golden age of theoretical physics esp Quantum Theory).

Also, the person after whom many of the particles in this universe is named (Bosons) never got any Nobel prize. Never did the man behind all those talents and father of old quantum theory-Sommerfeld.

Nobel people got it wrong.

By: Ana

Ana — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:01:15 +0000

I’ll add my thoughts too. I have a degree in German Litterature, but we also had a very thorough curse in universal literature, and even before this I loved to read and I confess that I heard and moreoever read all the works or some of them by Theodor Mommsen, Bjornstjern Bjornson, Frederic Mistral, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Selma Lagerlof, Paul Heyse.

Of course, I’m not saying that M.Twain, for example, does not deserve a Nobel, for he certainly does, but please do not underestimate the avid readers.

At least you should know “The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerssons” by Selma Lagerlof, a very good children’s book, that is very popular till now in European countries.

By: Ally T. Elliot

Ally T. Elliot — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:34:47 +0000

Nice list. Particularly 3, 4, 6, 9!

By: Gogo

Gogo — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:19:37 +0000

I think more people know about the author Graham Greene than the actor

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:43:33 +0000

I absolutely agree with you!I mean come on…You should at least have heard of Quo Vadis …

By: Napoleon666

Napoleon666 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:10:45 +0000

Shows how overrated the whole Noble thing is.

By: flordels

flordels — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:17:08 +0000

the incredible irony of the list of recipients that are not Mark Twain includes the incredibly influential historian, mommsen, about whom twain had much to say about at a dinner which both men attended. the occasion was post Nobel prize for the historian.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:08:13 +0000

Ezra Pound is another writer who should have won the nobel prize for literature.

By: Razvan T. Coloja

Razvan T. Coloja — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:37:22 +0000

I do not have three English degrees but I have heard of Frederic Mistral, Rudyard Kipling and Selma Lagerlof; even read the last two. Have you no shame?