tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254577696438195900.post8851182048938555961..comments2024-03-26T17:26:49.458-04:00Comments on Noli insipientium iniurias pati: The BBC thinks Carter was America's greatest presidentadagioforstringshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05662017050067739695noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254577696438195900.post-63229637468362182982009-02-16T15:55:00.000-05:002009-02-16T15:55:00.000-05:00Hamsun purportedly gave his Nobel prize medal to G...Hamsun purportedly gave his Nobel prize medal to Goebbels, which is why he is viewed ambivalently in his home country, Norway:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000211/ai_n14288935" REL="nofollow"> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000211/ai_n14288935</A><BR/><BR/>"The story of Knut Hamsun remains one of the sorriest tales in the history of both Norway and the Nobel Prize, which he was awarded in 1920 (later giving the medal to Goebbels as a present)."adagioforstringshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05662017050067739695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254577696438195900.post-21377548716019058062009-02-16T13:48:00.000-05:002009-02-16T13:48:00.000-05:00He is a presumptuous a**, isn't he? Most American...He is a presumptuous a**, isn't he? Most Americans don't know what they were voting for or why. But Simon is going to tell us what we voted for. <BR/>I don't know if you're right about Hamsun. I've never read him. But if he was a good writer, Auden says history will forgive him most anything.Chris M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02185274210137762060noreply@blogger.com