The Campaign Has Begun!

The lovely medal itself

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William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. What does this bit of trivia have to do with anything important? You may well ask. And we may well answer. We've decided to start a write-in campaign to get ourselves nominated for one of those little beauties. Why not? It's a very prestigious thing, or so we've been told. Plus, you get a gold medal and some money. We can always use money. And we can exchange the medal for an Oscar, then sell that on eBay.

What qualifications could we possibly have? Well...

• We've written a book.
  
  
• Geoff reads books.
  
  
• We've influenced literally tens of people world wide.
  
  
• We are at least as talented as Albert Camus. L'Étranger? What is that? It's not even proper English.
  
  
• Unlike Jean-Paul Sartre, we'll accept the damn thing. Or have Sacheen Littlefeather do it for us.
  
  
• Unlike Erik Axel Karlfeldt, we're alive.

So who can officially nominate someone for this overly exclusive honor?

According to the Nobel Prize site:

1. Members of the Swedish Academy and of other academies, institutions and societies which are similar to it in construction and purpose;
2. Professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and university colleges;
3. Previous Nobel Laureates in Literature;
4. Presidents of those societies of authors that are representative of the literary production in their respective countries.

Which we think leaves just about everyone out. How elitist can you be? Why are they so exclusive? That's just not fair. A grass roots campaign to write us in as nominees would be a true blow struck for the common man. Men. Geoff and Steve.

What is the timeline for nominations?

Nominations are open in September.

The deadline for submission is in February

The candidates are chosen in April

The awards ceremony is in December

That gives us just a few short months to inundate the Swedish Academy with post cards, letters, phone calls, emails and our group petition before the nominations are closed forever. Well, until next time they open back up again.

A little history for those who need that sort of thing

From the Swedish Academy site:

The Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature derives from a fund which was created from the fortune left by inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833–96) and which is managed by the Nobel Foundation. The task of selecting the recipient of the Prize was entrusted to the Swedish Academy by Nobel in his will. The first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901.

http://www.swedishacademy.org/web/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature.aspx

Please fill out the form below and we will send your information along with all our other supporters to the Swedish Academy well before the deadline.

You could also contact the academy directly:

The Swedish Academy

Postal address:
Svenska Akademien
P.O. Box 2118
SE-103 13 Stockholm
comments@nobelprize.org

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