How do Nobel laureates spend their winnings? And how important is the financial aspect of the award? On the morning of 28 October 1954, Mary Welsh Hemingway, fourth wife of Ernest Hemingway, was asleep in bed when her husband crawled in alongside her to whisper: "I've won the thing." "What thing?" "The Swedish thing." He meant, of course, the Nobel prize in literature, but for the novelist, the news was not entirely welcome. "I'm thinking of telling them to shove it," he said, then paused. "Hell...
How do Nobel laureates spend their winnings? And how important is the financial aspect of the award? On the morning of 28 October 1954, Mary Welsh Hemingway, fourth wife of Ernest Hemingway, was asleep in bed when her husband crawled in alongside her to whisper: "I've won the thing." "What thing?" "The Swedish thing." He meant, of course, the Nobel prize in literature, but for the novelist, the news was not entirely welcome. "I'm thinking of telling them to shove it," he said, then paused. "Hell...
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