Nobel Prize scandal details released half a century later
by editors@theworld.org (Gerry Hadden) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6TT9X)
The Nobel Academy guards its deliberations over prize winners for 50 years, and events in 1974 help explain why. That year, the two winners of the Nobel for literature were members of the Literature Committee itself. The committee was accused of nepotism, its reputation tarnished. The controversy also led to tragedy. The World's Gerry Hadden reports.