C.S. Lewis in the News – May 11, 2012

Here are this week’s appearances of C.S. Lewis and his works across the web: Museums The World of Narnia exhibit comes to Sydney, Australia Theatre The Screwtape Letters comes to the Paramount Theatre in Chicago A review of the aforesaid play by CBN A review of Freud’s Last Session, also playing in Chicago The Lion,

C.S. Lewis News Roundup

Since there are several bits of Lewis related news this week, I’ve put them together into one blog post for your convenience. Lewis on list of those who turned down honors from the Queen Though I am pretty sure this was already commonly known in Lewis studies (I remember reading it somewhere), C.S. Lewis turned

Tolkien Passed Up for Nobel Prize

Newly released documentation about the 1961’s Nobel Prize for Literature selection process was just released. Among the revelations: that C.S. Lewis nominated his friend and fellow Inkling, J.R.R. Tolkien, for The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s nomination was rejected by the committee, with one of the committee members stating that Tolkien’s prose “has not in