Nobel Prize awarded for best porn in 2004

Well, not quite - but that's the opinion of Nobel jurist Knut Ahnlund, who quit the academy in protest over the 2004 literature prize being awarded to Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek. Ahnlund, a Swedish author characterized Jelinek's works as "whingeing, unenjoyable, violent pornography". But this certainly explains everything to us bourgeois English-writing types:

The choice of Nobel laureate is often dismissed as obscure when the winner hails from outside the publishing mainstream of Anglophone authors.