The Nobel Prize for Literature will not be handed out this year, as the Swedish Academy, the panel responsible for naming a laureate, has been engulfed in a scandal over its handling of sexual misconduct by the husband of one of its members. The Academy will name its 2018 winner at the same time as its 2019 winner, it announced on its website Friday. This would be the first time since 1949 that the Academy did not name a laureate, which has happened seven prior times: 1915, 1919, 1925, 1926, 192...
No Nobel Prize for Literature This Year After Swedish Academy Rocked by Sexual Misconduct Scandal
The Wrap - 4 May 2018 16:53
The Nobel Prize for Literature will not be handed out this year, as the Swedish Academy, the panel responsible for naming a laureate, has been engulfed in a scandal over its handling of sexual misconduct by the husband of one of its members. The Academy will name its 2018 winner at the same time as its 2019 winner, it announced on its website Friday. This would be the first time since 1949 that the Academy did not name a laureate, which has happened seven prior times: 1915, 1919, 1925, 1926, 192...
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