In a shocking development, the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature will not be awarded. In this episode, we explore what happened, how it happened, and what might happen still.

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Penguin Random House Audio

Educated written by Tara Westover and read by Julia Whelan

Further Reading:

The Nobel Prize in Literature: Where Do We Go From Here? by Erika Kern

The Nobel Prize by Burton Feldman

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