[quote=Andrew Frisardi;455535]
As
Tim Parks wrote in 2011, the year Transtromer won it, the international pretension of the Nobel Prize is ridiculous.
I never understood the outrage over Tranströmer. He seems like a great poet, a much greater poet than Glück. Americans seem always angry when they don't win, and even angrier when a poet they have never heard of wins. How is obscurity a negative? In all honesty I would much rather an obscure Tranströmer than a famous Glück.