Papers revealing the Swedish Academy's deliberations over the Waiting for Godot author reveal fierce disputes over his 'nihilism' Fifty years after Samuel Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature, newly opened archives reveal the serious doubts the committee had over giving the award to an author they felt held a "bottomless contempt for the human condition". Announcing that the Waiting for Godot author had won the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM on January 17, 2020