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Alice Munro
October 5, 2022
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The Politics of Everything
The Slippery Politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature
People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.
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October 10, 2013
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Alice Munro Wins the Nobel Prize
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