Censorship is a must, says China's Nobel winner

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3. Well, I hope he's a damned good writer

Because he doesn't rate very high in the political or philosophical department. I don't know his work. But I guess the Nobel Prize for Literature should be neutral as to politics and should be about great literature alone.

Though it hasn't always been. No one probably deserved the prize more than Jorge Luis Borges, who unfortunately had very bad right-wing politics in his personal life (supported Pinochet and other dictators). He was nominated several times but never won it, purportedly because of his politics.