> <<It's been my experience that tortuous
writing is a plus
> for the Nobel prize.>>
>
> I don't think the prize is biased that way. Among
US
> winners, only Faulkner could be said to have a
complicated
> prose, which I love of course.
>
> Sometimes they do reward formal contributions,
rather than
> content. This is particularly true of poets
and
> playwrights. But on this list we don't have to worry
about
> those. The forms are pretty stable and what counts
is the
> treatment and the content within those established
forms.
Hemingway won for "The Old Man and the Sea" in 1954. Nothing
tortuous about that prose!
All the Best,
Brian
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