http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-why-did-the-swedish-academy-announce-the-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-on-yom-kippur-cultural-insensitivity-in-stockholm/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-why-did-the-swedish-academy-announce-the-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-on-yom-kippur-cultural-insensitivity-in-stockholm/#comment-6876 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:09:29 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3137#comment-6876 You’re right. I didn’t even consider the betting, but that kind of scheduling really tips the Academy’s hand (to work in a poker metaphor, ha, ha!)

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-why-did-the-swedish-academy-announce-the-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-on-yom-kippur-cultural-insensitivity-in-stockholm/#comment-6875 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:52:27 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3137#comment-6875 Apart from the religious insensitivity that the date involved — which is considerable — people bet on the Nobel Prizes through online and other agencies, and a blunder like this could have affected the betting …

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/late-night-with-jan-harayda-%e2%80%93-why-did-the-swedish-academy-announce-the-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-on-yom-kippur-cultural-insensitivity-in-stockholm/#comment-6873 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:51:03 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=3137#comment-6873 Good point! Yom Kippur is THE most important day on the Jewish religious calender. It’s the Day of Atonement. What was the Swedish Academy thinking??? Talk about “ignorant” and “insular”!

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