From: Ridge, Judith <Judith.Ridge>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:15:44 +1000

The Nobel Prize website states the following abuot who may nominate candidates for the Literature prize:

Right to submit proposals for the Nobel Prize in Literature, based on the principle of competence and universality, shall by statute be enjoyed by:

1. Members of the Swedish Academy and of other academies, institutions and
   societies which are similar to it in construction and purpose; 2. Professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and university
   colleges; 3. Previous Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature; 4. Presidents of those societies of authors that are representative of the
   literary production in their respective countries.

Prize-Awarder: The Swedish Academy, Stockholm

The criteria for the Literature Prize is brief, but it's clearly about literary merit:

"...be given to the person who "shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction."

So no matter what we may think of Rowling's gift to children-as-readers, that's simply not what the Nobel is about.


Judith Ridge

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