Comparing any kind of racism to Hitler is incredibly lame and tired. Seriously stop this shit. You are not being clever.

Really? Well that’s a shame. I don’t get why they’d be afraid of potential controversy considering all the Nobel Peace prize winners. Of course I would have loved if a woman had been awarded the prize but Adonis is the most famous poet of the Arab world. It would have been a huge symbol.

Huh many people give a shit about the Nobel Prize, it’s a very prestigious prize, whether you like it or not. Thinking you can dismiss all literary awards is very naive.

Thanks for the links! There’s a literary French prize, called the Femina prize created in 1904 by a group of women who were tired of seeing the Goncourt prize (a prestigious French literary prize) being given mostly to male authors. So these women created the Femina prize and it’s now a prestigious literary prize in…

Thanks, didn’t know that.

Do literature nobel prizes really matter though? Like, last year’s winner: Svetlana Alexievitch. Has she sold more books because of it? Has she been translated in more languages? I had never heard of her and I continue to never see her books on the shelves where I live (Belgium).

I’m curious: what were the things being written when Elfriede Jelinek won the literature prize? I’ve only read one of her novels (The pianist) and found it good while absolutely cynical and depressing.

Ah ok. He’s a good writer indeed but you’d expect a great writer for the Nobel prize, I agree. I just had a look at the list of Nobel Prize for Literature and I have never read the vast majority of the winners, I’m ashamed to say. Even those in the last twenty years. I don’t know what that says about the Nobel Prize…

Why don’t you like Patrick Modiano btw? What’s wrong with him? He had been a renowned writer in France for many years prior to receiving the Nobel prize, he had the stature. I don’t know, there are far less deserving Nobel Prize than this one imo. Bob Dylan for instance (ugh)

What about Adonis, the French-Syrian poet? It would have been deserving and politically interesting to give it to one of the few Arabic poets. Plus considering the fact of the Syrian crisis.

Exactly. Since when do these assholes care about rape anyway?

Well this is disappointing. And yes he is indeed not perfect.

god yes. I can’t stand all these new terms masquerading as sexual orientation while they are just basic preferences.

The difference is that Scientology is a cult, not a religion.

Binge drinking exists in France too, especially among young people (students). You have a very romantic view of French people.

Well it’s the other way around. Melissa Etheridge has inserted herself in the Brangelina divorce. Considering the way she’s treated her ex-wife, she really should shut up about all this.

Women choose to abort a pack of cells, not kids for one. And yes the vast majority of them will choose to have an abortion if the fetus is found to have DS. And you don’t get to shame them, asshole.

Or you know, you could ALSO not having to justify yourself to judgy assholes.

People who’d think you’re a monster are self-righteous assholes. There is no wrong reason to have an abortion, period.

Why should we reduce the abortions of Down Syndrome people? Why? You’re basically saying that those abortions are wrong. Between the choice of a healthy kid and the choice of a disabled child, what do you think the vast majority of people would pick? Come on.