Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.

Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everything literature can do when tackling difficult issues.

Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American lyric tradition as well as European modernism. But he should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not.