Literature judge angers US critics with tirade on nation's 'ignorance'
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington The Guardian, Thursday October 2 2008 Article history
American writer Philip Roth. Nobel prize for literature judge Horace Engdahl has described American writing as 'too isolated, too insular'. Photograph: Orjan F Ellingvag/Dagbladet/Corbis http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/02/nobelprize.usa