It seems that the Nobel Committee has its political criterion for giving the prize for literature, instead of doing so from the angle of literature, the Chinese Writers Association (CWA) said Friday.
This shows that the Nobel Prize for Literature has virtually been used for political purposes and thus has lost its authority, said a person in charge of the CWA in an interview with Xinhua.
The CWA leader made the remarks when commenting on the Nobel Committee’s awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature to Chinese-French writer Gao Xingjian on Thursday.
He said China boasts many world-famous literary works and writers, about which the Nobel Committee knows little.
Born in 1940 in Jiangxi Province, east China, Gao Xingjian went abroad in 1987 and became a French national afterwards.
(People’s Daily 10/13/2000)
