2012年10月,原诺贝尔文学奖评委会主席谢尔·埃斯普马克来中国访问,在谈到以往诺贝尔文学奖的亚洲候选人时说:诺贝尔文学奖的评委会在1930年代开始关注亚洲作家包括中国作家,其中鲁迅确实进入过当时的诺贝尔文学奖视野,当时评委会的高本汉通过瑞典地理学家斯文·赫定以及刘半农,去询问鲁迅先生是否愿意被提名为候选人时,鲁迅以“配不上诺贝尔奖”为理由婉 In October 2012, the former Nobel Prize laureate Chairman Sher Espumak visited China. When talking about the past Asian candidates for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he said: The Jury of the Nobel Prize for Literature started in the 1930s Concerned with Asian writers, including Chinese writers, Lu Xun did enter the perspective of the then Nobel Prize in Literature when Gobank jurors through the Swedish geographers Sven Hedin and Liu Bannong to ask Mr. Lu Xun whether he was willing to be nominated as a candidate, Lu Xun to “not worthy of the Nobel Prize ” as a reason Wan