As the Sweden Academy enters closing deliberations for this year’s award, abiding secretary Horace Engdahl sameit’s nary coincidence that most winners are Europe “Of course there is almighty literature in all ample cultures, but you can’t get absent from the fact that Europe still is the central of the literature international ... naryt the Agreed States,” he told The Related Press in an unshared interview Tuesday. He samethe 16-member award jury has naryt chosen this year’s winner, and born nary hints about who was on the abbreviated list. United Statess Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates usually figure in speculation, but Engdahl wouldn’t comment on any names. Talking generally about United States literature, however, he sameU.S. writers are "too delicate to trends in their personal collective culture,” effortful behind the superior of their work. "The U.S. is too isolated, too island They don’t translate enaryugh and don't really participate in the ample dialogue of literature,” Engdahl same “That ignaryrance is restraining.” His comments were met with violent reactions from literature officials across the Atlantic Story continues below advertisement “You would think that the abiding secretary of an academy that pretends to wisdom but has historically unnaryticed Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov, to name conscionable a a few naryn-narybelists, would thin us the class lectures,” sameDavid Remnick, editor of The Brand-new Yorker. “And if he looked ambitious at the United States scene that he dwells on, he would see the vitality in the gener
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