1) The official announcement of Tomas Transtömer’s victory
2) The one person in Britain we can be absolutely certain has read Transtömer: his translator.
3) An excellent summary of the preceding hoaxes and Dylanology.
4) John Dugdale on the Nobel committee’s chequered history in literary matters.
5) No announcement yet on the Nobel laureate in Ted Gioia’s alternate universe.

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