Writers who never won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Last 2015, the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for Literature, opening new doors to a generation of authors who until then had been hidden in the shadows.

A great discovery that, however, does not replace the unfair decision not to reward these writers who never won the Nobel Prize for Literature and who really deserved it.

Virginia Woolf

The Scottish writer was pure sensitivity. A woman of her time whose portrait of a Desolate London after World War I It seemed to be complemented by her chronic depressive state, something that, added to an absent fame during her years of life, prevented her from being recognized with the Nobel. For posterity will remain novels like Mrs. Dalloway or To the Lighthouse, which portrayed part of his childhood on the remote Isle of Skye.

Leo Tolstoy

During the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature ceremony, the father of russian realism and author of such universal works as Guerra y paz it was despised by the organizing committee, something that raised blisters among the many followers of an author who admitted "to be thankful for not winning the prize, since the money that it included would not bring him anything good."

Jorge Luis Borges

Sympathizer of the dictatorships of Pinochet in Chile or Franco in Spain, the reasons why the Argentine author never received the Nobel would reside in his political friends, something that did not convince the Swedish organizers. Ideologies aside, we must recognize that one of the fathers and great teachers of XNUMXth century Latin American literature he would have well deserved the award.

James Joyce

The moment in which Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Homer, masturbated in front of a school was reason to censor the masterpiece of the Irish author in the United States for 12 years. A hiatus that deprived the talented Joyce of the possibility of being recognized by an organization too conservative to accept the quality of the work of one of the great authors in history.

Chinua achebe

The author of Everything falls apart, a book that captured the harsh reality of Nigerian villages being evangelized by the white man, adds to that long list of great African authors Those who resisted the award, with only four authors from the most fascinating continent in the world to be awarded by an organization that seems more obsessed with Western literature.

These writers who never won the Nobel they confirm the injustice of some awards that are characterized by their sympathy towards Central European authors and, also, by a somewhat macho criterion (only 14 women have been recognized in 114 years).

Which author do you think also deserved the Nobel?