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A little bit of history..

In 1974, The Swedish Academy was heavily criticized for awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to two of its own members. One laureate, Harry Martinson, was so shaken by the backlash he committed suicide 4 years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Martinson#Later_life_and...

That has absolutely nothing to do with this article.

That's sad. It says post humusly he was celebrated as the greatest writer after August someone.

But what's the point, he was gone .-.

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