25 Geniuses Ignored by the Nobel Prize(for Literature)

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26 күн бұрын

My earnest attempt to compile a list of all those geniuses who I believe have been denied or overlooked by the Nobel Prize committee for literature.
The Academy began in 1901. It had years to award Tolstoy the prize before he died in 1910. But it didn’t. It was said that the conservative judges were troubled by his religious beliefs and increasingly radical political views as he grew older. But the real reason may have been the historic tensions between Sweden and Russia - a later Academician later claimed that one early judge so hated Russians that he prevented Tolstoy, Chekhov and Gorky from winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Later in the mid-20th century, those who were spurned included Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, George Orwell, Robert Frost, John Updike, Graham Greene, Arthur Miller, James Baldwin. The list of overlooked literary greats goes on and on, sealing the case that the Swedish Academy’s sins of omission virtually disqualify its choices as decisions to be taken seriously, say the American heritage Magazine.
I hope you will find the video interesting.

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@RajuGogul 24 күн бұрын

On Premchand, Yes. Some critics says, he is very much deserves Nobel.

@thereadingquest3320 24 күн бұрын

Yes, he deserved, undoubtedly

@jatingupta2863 22 күн бұрын

Wow sir, your passion is quite evident from the depth of your research! What a fantastic video- only channel on KZfaq to consistently deliver high quality content!!

@thelanguageofsoul8649 22 күн бұрын

You're doing just differently incredible. Appreciated 👍

@thereadingquest3320 22 күн бұрын

@@thelanguageofsoul8649 Thanks, Man :)) Love

@souvikmondal3650 25 күн бұрын

Chinua Achebe was also overlooked

@thereadingquest3320 25 күн бұрын

Yes, certainly

@Themangoes 25 күн бұрын

Great thought 🌹

@Manfred-nj8vz 23 күн бұрын

Very nice video again, Sir. May I quote here the letter that Albert Camus sent to Kazantzakis's widow, Helen, two years after Kazantzakis's death? Camus received the Nobel Prize in 1957 the year Kazantzakis died. He won it from Kazantzakis for only one vote. It's the famous letter where Camus says that Kazantzakis deserved the Nobel Prize «a hundred times more». That Kazantzakis didn't receive the Nobel Prize (he was nominated for nine years), I am sure you are aware about the embarrassing story for us Greeks, that back then the Greek Government sent many important people to Sweden in order to convince the Nobel Prize Committee n o t to give the Prize to Kazantzakis. He was accused for being a) a communist (he was not), b) an atheist as well as being impious and c) as someone that is dangerous for the youth. Isn't it obvious that two of these accusations resemble quite exactly the ones that brought Socrates in front of his court in 399 BC? Kazantzakis spent the last decade of his life in Antibes (France), where he actually wrote all of his novels. The Greek Government didn't even let the Greek consulate there to renew his passport. So, in other words, he had to spent the last part of his life in exile, away from his homeland. Apart from that, the story about how Kazantzakis's corpse was finally transported to Greece after his death is another whole story and the life of Kazantzakis in general is a topic of his own. However, Camus's letter can be found in Helen Kazantzakis's biography of her husband: «Nikos Kazantzakis, A Biography Based on his Letters», p. 469: «Madame, I was very sorry not to be able to take advantage of your invitation. I have always nurtured much admiration and, if you permit me, a sort of affection for your husband's work. I had the pleasure of being able to give public testimony of my admiration in Athens, at a period when official Greece was frowning upon her greatest writer. The welcome given my testimony by my student audience constituted the finest homage your husband's work and acts could have been granted. I also do not forget that the very day when I was regretfully receiving a distinction that Kazantzakis deserved a hundred times more [i.e. the Nobel Prize], I got the most generous of telegrams from him. Later on, I discovered with consternation that this message had been drafted a few days before his death. With him, one of our last great artists vanished. I am one of those who feel and will go on feeling the void that he has left . . .» And dear Sir, if I may, please do read, if you haven't already, his other great novel "Christ Recrucified". Maybe someday you could produce a nice, interesting, respectful and insightful review as you always do.

@thereadingquest3320 23 күн бұрын

Thanks, Manfred for such detailed elaboration. Where are you from and what do you do ?

@rexchaudhary3073 22 күн бұрын

Sir, what about Ayn Rand on her famous work "Atlas Shrugged" and Emile Zola for his book "Germinal"

@KushagraaDubeyy 24 күн бұрын

Great video. It would’ve become even more interesting had you yourself dug deep about whom out of these were nominated or not that would’ve made the discussion even more worthy.

@thereadingquest3320 24 күн бұрын

Thanks, Khushgra. Point well-taken. But sometimes certain figures are so great in your mind that you do not care if they have been nominated or not. The stature of Joyce and Aurobindo is so great that I didn't even care to search for their nominations.

@KushagraaDubeyy 24 күн бұрын

@@thereadingquest3320 surely, I was speaking from the point of view of how the people who were in charge of nominating them were like.

@RajuGogul 24 күн бұрын

James Joice for his Stream of Consciousness, unique style invented

@vandanakumar363 24 күн бұрын

Fantastic video. Much needed on the unsung heroes Rather would call them literary unsung heroes as far as the academy was concerned.

@thereadingquest3320 23 күн бұрын

Thanks a lot. DO you feel you should have included some other names too?

@RajuGogul 24 күн бұрын

Excellent Nishant ❤ powerful and Shaky Topic on Global Scale. Special Kudos. By the Way, Posthumously Can Be Given on Mass Scale. We can also Bell the Cat. ❤❤❤

@thereadingquest3320 23 күн бұрын

Thanks, Raju :))

@Animeshuma 22 күн бұрын

This is the first video that I have watched from your channel. It’s a very well argued and informative. Books and authors are very much my interests too. Bravo! For your efforts! 🫶🏻❤️

@thereadingquest3320 22 күн бұрын

@@Animeshuma Thanks a ton, Animesh :))

@Animeshuma 22 күн бұрын

@@thereadingquest3320 I came through the mutual friend Mahesh Mishra ji via Facebook.

@mailhitendra 24 күн бұрын

Thanks a ton❤

@Buddhasway7601 23 күн бұрын

Sir, what about s.radhakrishnan? He was nominated multiple times for both literature and peace.

@thereadingquest3320 23 күн бұрын

I have no idea why at all he was nominated for literature.

@sharjeeljawaid 22 күн бұрын

2:40 Tolstoy was nominated several times

@thereadingquest3320 22 күн бұрын

@@sharjeeljawaid I am sure, but the Nobel prize committee at that time didn't like Russian even a bit..

@sharjeeljawaid 22 күн бұрын

@@thereadingquest3320 appreciate your kind notice

@jatingupta2863 22 күн бұрын

Tolstoy and Ghosh didn't get a Nobel????????? Wow, what's up with the academy??? Absolutely astonishing 😢

@aryansuryawanshi2295 22 күн бұрын

Bhalchandra Nemade

@death-jy1ph 23 күн бұрын

Aurobindo was nominated for noble?

@thereadingquest3320 23 күн бұрын

@@death-jy1ph Sri Aurobindo was nominated twice for the Nobel prize without it being awarded, in 1943 for the Nobel award in Literature and in 1950 for the Nobel award in Peace.

@death-jy1ph 23 күн бұрын

@@thereadingquest3320 was he that much impactful?! What's ur opinion? I never heard of him untill recently one friend told about nomination

@thereadingquest3320 23 күн бұрын

@@death-jy1ph That is why I have spoken about him.

@bhanutripathi4055 25 күн бұрын

D.H Lawrence and Pessoa stand alone when we talk of profound emotions and solitude.. they are more an alchemist of literature in the 20th century. But more often I see Lebanese writers like Khalil Gibran, Mikhail Naimy are little unsung..like a whole gamut of Indian authors as you said Premchand, Aurobindo also Aacharya Chatursen, Bagwati Babu and countless others. Do you think sir.. nobel is sometimes biased..or we are the one who have made nobel a standard to measure the greatness of an author?

@thereadingquest3320 25 күн бұрын

Nobel is indeed biased, and sometimes while awarding the prize to the likes of BOB it has performed comedy of errors.

@sharjeeljawaid 22 күн бұрын

9:38 they do not consider works from non Western writers