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- From: "Adriano Palma" <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:58:25 +0200
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it mustn't go amiss that the first name and the surname of the winner
starts with the )roman alph) letter 't'.
>>> <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> 10/11/2011 3:29 PM >>>
Palma was wondering...
The source is this below.
Note:
"In today's instant news market, the false info quickly appeared on
[various] outlets: [the new Nobel for Literature was Dobrica Cosic, a
90-year-old
Serbian poet."
Cheers,
Speranza
"Serbian media caught by Internet hoax about Nobel literature prize
winner."
2011/10/06
Associated Press
"An internet hoax that falsely trumpeted a Serb as this year’s Nobel
Literature Prize winner was slick, and down fell the victims: State-run
TV, news
agencies, radio and several newspapers. Moments before the Swedish
Academy
announced the real winner — Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer — on
Thursday,
unknown hackers said on what looked like an official Nobel Prize
website
that it was Serbian writer Dobrica Cosic. The site included a photo of
the
90-year-old Cosic, quotations from one of his books, and a description
heralding him as “the last dissident of the 20th century, witness of a
declining
era, as well as the prophet of an emerging one.”
In today’s instant news markets, the false info quickly appeared on
Serbian outlets, including Belgrade’s B-92 radio, state TV and
independent news
agencies.
“Someone has really tried hard to carry out the elaborate hoax,” B-92
said after withdrawing the news from its programs.
An email sent to the Associated Press and other media outlets — which
appeared to originate from the prestigious Serbian Academy of Arts and
Sciences, of which Cosic is a member — provided a link to the website.
The academy, however, denied it had sent the email, and demanded
police
investigate.
“This is yet another in a series of attacks on the important
institutions
in Serbia with the intention of ridiculing the social values of our
country,
” the nationalist-dominated academy said in a statement.
Cosic is popular among his countrymen, but he’s also considered a
proponent of the hardline Serbian nationalism which led to the bloody
breakup of
the former Yugoslavia in 1990s’.
Cosic briefly served as the president of Yugoslavia — consisting of
Serbia
and Montenegro — in 1992 when he was hand-picked by late Serbian
strongman
Slobodan Milosevic.
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