Editing Horace Engdahl (section)

==Controversy==
In October 2008, Engdahl told the ''[[Associated Press]]'' that the [[United States]] is "too isolated, too insular" to challenge Europe as "the center of the literary world"<ref name="guardian1">[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/02/nobelprize.usa "No Nobel prizes for American writers: they're too parochial"] by Suzanne Goldenberg, [[The Guardian]], Thursday 2 October 2008</ref> and that "they don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature ...That ignorance is restraining." At the time of the interview, no American author had received a Nobel Prize in Literature since 1993.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05mcgrath.html "Lost in Translation? A Swede’s Snub of U.S. Lit"]; New York Times, October 4, 2008, by Charles McGrath</ref> His comments generated controversy across the Atlantic, with [[Harold Augenbraum]], head of the U.S. [[National Book Foundation]] offering to send him a reading list.<ref name="guardian1"/> 

In April 2018, the ''New York Times'' reported that Engdahl had railed against former Academy members who left following allegations of sexual abuse by [[Jean-Claude Arnault]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/world/europe/swedish-academy-sex-nobel.html "Sex Abuse Scandal Casts Shadow Over Nobel Prize for Literature"]; ''The New York Times'', April 11, 2018</ref>