The Literary Prize for the Refusal of Literary Prizes

<https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/12/06/literary-prize-refusal-literary-prizes/>

"It isn’t what the people who established the awards want them to do or
to mean, but it’s how they’re used. As a way to honor a writer, an award
has genuine value, but the use of prizes as a marketing ploy by
corporate capitalism, and sometimes as a political gimmick by the
awarders, has compromised their value."

LeGuin is always wonderful.  Via Esther Schindler and George Station.

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