In The Telegraph David Robson looks at The Literary Year 2011 (mainly in the UK).
I assume the claim: "the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature went to the veteran Danish poet Tomas Tranströmer" is an intentional mistake (surely it's impossible that neither Robson nor some (copy) editor at The Telegraph know the unoverlookable fact that the guy's a Swede) -- a snide way of suggesting what a silly prize the Nobel is and how little it matters who the hell the laureates actually are; I'm surprised they didn't intentionally misspell his name too.
I assume the claim: "the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature went to the veteran Danish poet Tomas Tranströmer" is an intentional mistake (surely it's impossible that neither Robson nor some (copy) editor at The Telegraph know the unoverlookable fact that the guy's a Swede) -- a snide way of suggesting what a silly prize the Nobel is and how little it matters who the hell the laureates actually are; I'm surprised they didn't intentionally misspell his name too.