7 hours agoLewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
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(6 years ago)Sinclair Lewis on November 5, 1930, wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first writer from the United States to be honoured at that price. In the speech before the Swedish Academy, Lewis praised Theodore Deiser, Ernest Hemingway, and other contemporary writers. He also complained that in America most readers and [...]
In the speech before the Swedish Academy, Lewis praised Theodore Deiser, Ernest Hemingway, and other contemporary writers.
He also complained that in America most readers and writers continue to fear any literature that does not praise everything American, whether mistakes or virtues. Sinclair
Lewis sharply criticised institutionalized literature as well, our “professors do not accept any other literature, but want it clear, cold, purified, dead.” They just don't want anyone else writing better, or breaking standards.
