ArtsBeat Blog: Tolkien Snubbed by Nobel Prize Jury, Papers Reveal
C. S. Lewis nominated Tolkien, the "Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" author, in 1961, but the jury said of his work that "the result has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality," according to papers in the Nobel archive in Stockholm.
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Friday, 6 January, 2012
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