Talk:Gunnar Ekelöf

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[edit] Nobel Prize speculation

I just removed this:

(It is curious that Ekelöf never won the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is awarded by the academy of which he was a member. It is possible that the academy has a rule against awarding the Nobel to its own members, in order to preserve objectivity. It is also possibly due to personal modesty.)

It is not at all possible that the academy has had such a rule, since it has awarded the prize to four of its own members: Verner von Heidenstam (1916), Pär Lagerkvist (1951), Harry Martinson, and Eyvind Johnson (both 1974). Additionally, former member Erik Axel Karlfeldt received the prize posthumously in 1931. Nor, for that matter, is it particularly curious that Ekelöf didn't receive it. Far greater writers have been neglected. Tomasboij 12:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)