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Nobel Committee Fought Tooth And Nail Over Whether To Give Prize To Samuel Beckett

WORDS Posted: January 17, 2020 10:02 am

“Fifty years after Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature, newly opened archives reveal the serious doubts the committee had over giving the award to an author they felt held a ‘bottomless contempt for the human condition’.” – The Guardian

WORDS Published: 01.17.20

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 01.17.20

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