BIG ART AND BIG POLITICS: WHY WINSTON CHURCHILL RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE BEFORE ERNEST HEMINGWAY?
Journal: Scientific Notes of V I Vernadsky Crimean Federal University Philological sciences
Year: 2020

The article attempts to solve one of the mysteries of the world literary process of the 20th century. The author explains the reasons for the unusual choice of the Nobel Committee, which presented the outstanding British politician Winston Churchill in 1953 with the prize in literature, preferring him to such recognized masters as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Jerome Salinger.According to