Swedish Academy reveals 70 authors were being considered, with the Brighton Rock novelist backed by the chairman before losing out to Miguel Angel AsturiasGraham Greene and Jorge Luis Borges were serious contenders for the Nobel prize for literature in 1967, newly opened archives have revealed. The Nobel prize nominations are only made public 50 years after the prize is awarded. But digging through the archives, the Svenska Dagbladet reveals that only a handful were in serious contention, including Borges, Asturias, Greene, WH Auden and the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, who would win the following year. The Nobel committee never honoured Greene or Borges, two authors who are still widely read, while Asturias’s titles are more scarce. But people don’t understand freedom’ Read moreSchueler said: “It is really exciting, and somewhat frustrating, to look into the old Nobel committee papers.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2018 13:52 UTC