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Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts) Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:21 PM Jun 2014

International prizes for literature baffle me.

How can a panel of judges possibly judge the relative literary merits of works in different languages, when most of the judges won't speak all those languages?

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International prizes for literature baffle me. (Original Post) Donald Ian Rankin Jun 2014 OP

It is essentially a popularity contest for what academics think is good writing. Kurska Jun 2014 #1

Kurska

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1. It is essentially a popularity contest for what academics think is good writing.

Reply to Donald Ian Rankin (Original post)

Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:45 PM

Jun 2014

You're right in that the people voting for these things generally has never even viewed the literature in it's original form.

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