Don’t Hate Google for Reader — Award It the Nobel Prize for Books | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Signalé par Antoine Jacob
▻http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/04/start-essay-and-the-winner-is
When the Nobel Prizes launched in 1901, possible choices for the award in literature, bestowed upon a living writer to honor their entire life’s work, included such historical titans as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, and Henry James. The Swedish Academy—18 elders with absolute power to choose the winner—instead gave the first medal to a formalist poet named Sully Prudhomme and the second, in 1902, to a historian named Theodor Mommsen.
