On the other hand, absolutely minor (and sometimes terrible) writers have been awarded the prize. Since the 1990s, the winners of the Nobel Prize for literature have been chosen mostly for being "politically correct".
Of all literary prizes for literature the Nobel Prize has become by far the least meaningful.
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