PEN, Booker, Nobel, all felicitate the ones who critique a global south nation as a citizen of their own land.
No European ever gets a prize for critiquing their land, no euro American gets a prize for critiquing theirs. #Asange
The pattern is there for all who wish to see
No European ever gets a prize for critiquing their land, no euro American gets a prize for critiquing theirs. #Asange
The pattern is there for all who wish to see
https://twitter.com/GermanyinIndia/status/1572100875916808194
If you are a desi writer who writes pro Bharat and has never won a Booker or Nobel or PEN, it is a feather on your cap to NOT have won them.
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Ask Germans why they never gave any award to Meili for his dedicated, vocal and engaging work in Switzerland? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph…
2021 PEN was awarded to Tsitsi Dangarembga for writing about the poverty and challenges faced by women in Zimbabwe trying to achieve their aims in life and the struggles they have to undertake. It is novel of disillusionment. She was also nominated for Booker.
Sound familiar ?
Sound familiar ?
Pulitzer, Booker, PEN, Nobel, Magsaysay all are terribly biased. People have called their bias out but they do not listen. @adrianmckinty @Drsunandambal 
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