Of the 70 Writers Nominated for the 1967 Nobel, Meet the 5 Women / M. Lynx Qualey

The Swedish Academy, which grants the Nobel Prize in Literature, keeps their nominees secret for fifty years after each award. At that point, they open their musty archives to the public. ... Also notable is that — out of the 70 writers on the list — just five seem to have been women. Svetlana Alexievich, who won the prize in 2015, was just the fourteenth woman to win the prize since it was first given in 1901. The prize has largely celebrated Europeans and men, and male Europeans, so it’s unsurprising that the nominations list is weighted toward men. ... [mehr] https://bookriot.com/2018/01/07/70-writers-nominated-1967-nobel-meet-4-women