>> didn’t Menchu win it for literature, with her phoney baloney diary? <<
You’ve got it. The Committee’s original decision to award her the prize was bad enough in the first place — although I suppose it was understandable if you look at such matters with a leftwing perspective.
But what was most deeply disgraceful, and not understandable even if you can imagine yourself as a full-blown Democratic Socialist, was the Committee’s failure to revoke the prize once Rigoberta’s “literary” fraud had been fully exposed.
But then we’re talking about Norway, a quaint and charming country with plenty of delightful people — and where Democratic Socialist ideology still is able to survive and even to thrive thanks to the nation’s virtually unlimited supplies of offshore petroleum and natural gas.
(Moreover, at least a few things about Norway are worth emulating. For example, it’s among only three countries in the whole world where you can walk into a restaurant and LEGALLY eat whale-meat steak. Needless to say, this situation drives the neighboring Swedish and Danish enviros crazy, and it’s one of several factors that keeps Norway out of the EU.)