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Is the Nobel Prize unfair to US?

The 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature is to be announced. There is speculation about it being an "anti-US" prize, after the lead Nobel judge said that American literature was insular - and that Europe was the centre of the literary world. Novelist and poet AS Byatt and Sam Leith, literary editor of the Telegraph, discuss why the last US winner of the Nobel Prize was in 1993.

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