Swedish Academy says will postpone 2018 Nobel literature prize award

 

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Swedish Academy's annual meeting at the Old Stock Exchange building in Stockholm, Sweden December 20, 2017. TT News Agency/Jonas Ekstromer via REUTERS/File Photo

 

 

 

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - No Nobel Prize for literature will be given this year, following a scandal over sexual misconduct allegations that has seen a string of board members resign from the board of the Swedish Academy that awards it, the Nobel Foundation said on Friday.

 

The foundation said in a statement the intention was to award the 2018 prize next year, along with that year's prize.

 

(Reporting by Stockholm Newsroom; Editing by Peter Graff)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-05-04

2018 Nobel Literature prize postponed over Academy sex scandal

 

Anders Olsson, the acting permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announces that the Swedish Academy postpones the award of 2018 Nobel literature prize, during an interview to the Swedish newsagency TT News Agency, in Stockholm, Sweden, May 4, 2018. TT News Agency/Janerik Henriksson/via REUTERS

 

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - No Nobel Prize for Literature will be given this year, because of a scandal over sexual misconduct allegations that has seen a string of board members resign from the board of the Swedish Academy that makes the award, the Academy said on Friday.

 

"The present decision was arrived at in view of the currently diminished Academy and the reduced public confidence in the Academy," it said in a statement.

 

"Work on the selection of a laureate is at an advanced stage and will continue as usual in the months ahead but the Academy needs time to regain its full complement, engage a larger number of active members and regain confidence in its work, before the next Literature Prize winner is declared."

 

The Academy said it aimed to award two prizes in 2019.

 

The council of prestigious authors and linguists has been dealing with the fallout of allegations of sexual misconduct by the husband of one of its members and of the leaks of names of some prize-winners ahead of the formal announcements.

 

Photographer and cultural figure Jean-Claude Arnault, who is married to Academy member and author Katarina Frostenson, denies all allegations, regarding both sexual misconduct and leaking the names of laureates, his lawyer told Reuters on Thursday. A postponement or cancellation of the prize is rare but not unprecedented.

 

There were no awards between 1940 and 1943, due to World War Two, while the American novelist William Faulkner received his prize a year late in 1950 when two prizes were handed out.

 

The rules of the foundation that administers the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel mean prizes can be reserved until the following year.

 

(Reporting by Stockholm Newsroom; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-05-04

Such a difficult task to vote for a person that best fits their agenda. A tiny group of self important pseudo intellectuals desperately trying to conform humanity to their ideology. Maybe they should find another aging hippy that hasn't been relevant in decades to lavish praise upon.

Edited May 4, 20188 yr by canuckamuck

5 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

Such a difficult task to vote for a person that best fits their agenda. A tiny group of self important pseudo intellectuals desperately trying to conform humanity to their ideology. Maybe they should find another aging hippy that hasn't been relevant in decades to lavish praise upon.

Yes seeking individuals with excellence, originality and intellect is such a waste of time.  Lets vote for somw foul mouthed champion of the lowest common denominator.

Do you watch keeping up with the kardashians?

34 minutes ago, Expatthailover said:

Yes seeking individuals with excellence, originality and intellect is such a waste of time.

Lets vote for somw foul mouthed champion of the lowest common denominator.

Do you watch keeping up with the kardashians?

I don't even watch television, but you can tell me what I have missed.

 

Sex scandal? .................Does that mean Donald Trump won't get a Nobel Peace Prize? ..............Just asking.

The prize-winners by now have become a bit dubious.  For example, Kazuo Ishiguro:  of his not overly large output, only one, Remains of the Day, seems (imo) worthy of attention.

And Pinter?  Ok, he was a very good playwright, but a Nobel????

 

And where is Philip Roth?  Even Joseph Heller... and so on...

I was going to turn it down anyway.

This topic is about the Nobel Prize in LITERATURE.  You know, writing, being an author, a poet etc..

 

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