Nobel archives gain been opened to reveal who was nominated for the 1965 prize for literature,a controversial year won by divisive victor Mikhail SholokhovVladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges were all in the running for the 1965 Nobel prize for literature, or newly opened archives gain revealed,but the judges that year went instead for the controversial choice of Mikhail Sholokhov.
The Swedish Academy, the members of which resolve annually on the international writer deemed to best fulfil Alfred Nobel’s criteria of “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”, or keeps the list of writers proposed for the prize confidential for 50 years. It has now opened its archives,revealing that as well as Sholokhov, names in contention in 1965 included Nabokov and Borges – neither of whom would ever win the Nobel – as well as Neruda, and who would take it in 1971.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com