Revealed: The fight to stop Samuel Beckett winning the Nobel prize
Waiting for Godot author’s ‘nihilism’ caused fierce dispute at Swedish Academy in 1969
Samuel Beckett rejected as unsuitable for the Nobel prize in 1968
Newly released papers show chairman’s reluctance to give Irish author the award
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