“The Merchant of Death” is Back: Nobel Prize becomes the Soros Prize
Alfred Nobel is spinning in his grave: After the Nobel Prize in Physics went to scientists claiming a direct link between human carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, the Nobel Prize in Literature went to an obscure Tanzanian writer named Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose main qualification seemed to be being a Muslim-African POC who criticizes colonialism (despite living in London instead of his native Zanzibar). The Nobel Committee once again bypassed more well-known candidates like Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Pynchon, Michel Houllebecq and Milan Kundera.
The Nobel committee has been atoning for the mortal sin of awarding the literature prize to V.S. Naipaul for 20 years and today achieved full redemption with the award to the obscure anti-colonial race hustler Abdulrazak Gurnah.
