As the Nobel Prize is awarded, a debate has been laid on the table about the importance of one recipient and later about the legitimacy of the prize on the whole. This is indeed true for the awards that are not provided for science but specifically the awards for literature and peace. Look at the reason and this is absolutely clear to all, that while we have come across certain level of qualities in the stage of global science to analyse the validity of research, nothing analogous survives for literature or politics. This is however a short account of the difference between science on one side, and arts and humanities on the other.
Giving Peace Prize by Norwegian Nobel Committee and Literature by Swedish Academy are just a slanted agreement made by a tiny group of people. Their selections and conclusions, political analyses and experiences are controlled by many features for instance ethnic group, gender, caste, creed, class, education, culture and et al.
Keeping the points in mind, it is therefore absolutely justifiable to talk about the merits and abilities of the laureates and their significant creative work. Indeed, the dialogue is just a central part of the whole exercise. These two specific Nobel Prizes should be taken as a welcome prospect to discuss on both literature and global peace.
Often, the contradiction on the Nobel Prize reveals unbridgeable disparities. The Nobel Peace Prize goes to scientists, writers, peace and political activists since the late 1800s, but sadly it doesn’t always go for the commendable. Let’s take some instances:
In a move called “a stunning surprise” by the New York Times, Barak Obama was chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize just 12 days after he took charge of his office in 2009. When he really won the prize merely months into his first term in office, many indicted the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of being politically aggravated as the prize was awarded to Obama thanks to his efforts to “reinforce global diplomacy and collaboration between peoples” instead of his actions.
Worthless to say, Tolstoy’s great works War and Peace and Anna Karenina are still unanimously documented as highest examples of pragmatist fiction, and hundreds of critics and academics mark to the former as the supreme novel ever written. But Tolstoy was never awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1902 until his demise in 1910 when the Swedish Academy carried on to choose writers whose creative work would leave no lasting bequest, the sole exception being Rudyard Kipling, who won the prize in 1907 at the age of 42.
However, India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pak’s Mala Yousafzai as a Hindu and a Muslim were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee and The Prize both are still based on a western pattern of thought and it is quite improbable that this will disappear absolutely someday.
