"Writers from all over the world have won Nobels in the prize's 108-year history, but European-based authors, whether natives or emigrants, have had a virtual monopoly in recent years -- a trend the committee has defended, apologized for and perpetuated."  From NYT...

 

It's not true...none of Chinese writers have ever obtained such a prize...

 

"In 2008, then-permanent secretary Horace Engdahl declared bluntly that Europeans tended to win because they deserved to win, especially compared to Americans, whom Engdahl dismissed as ''too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture.''

Is it because of translation? or Chinese is full of obscurities?

"He acknowledged that members of the Swedish Academy, who choose the winner and are themselves European, tend to ''relate more easily to literature written in Europe and in the European tradition.''"

Ah, another reason: the judges are from Europe...