Nobel Prize Snubs: Bob Dylan to Philip Roth, Literary Greats Who Didn’t Make the Grade

Mo Yan's win means Thomas Pynchon, Alice Munro and Don DeLillo are once again left out in the cold.

Tom Stoppard: This English playwright tackles thorny problems like censorship and economic inequality with a dollop of linguistics and philosophy for good measure. But a corpus that includes such acclaimed works as "Arcadia" and "The Coast of Utopia," wasn't worthy of a Swedish-style standing ovation.

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