Sixteen Years without Nobel: Spanish Literature Has No One to Read It in Sweden

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Sixteen years have passed since Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Since then, no Spanish-language writer has returned to Stockholm to collect the award. France, on the other hand, won two awards in less than a decade: Patrick Modiano in 2014 and Annie Ernaux in 2022. The contrast feeds a question that exceeds the tastes of the Swedish Academy: how is it possible for a language shared by more than 500 million people to re…