The Nobel Foundation announced today that the Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded twice this year, after a sexual assault scandal derailed the awards in 2018. For those unaware, here’s the background: In late 2017, the Swedish Academy was…
The Nobel Foundation announced today that the Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded twice this year, after a sexual assault scandal derailed the awards in 2018. For those unaware, here’s the background: In late 2017, the Swedish Academy was thrown into disarray when 18 women came forward to accuse Jean-Claude Arnault, the husband of academy member Katarina Frostenson, of sexual assault and harassment. In May 2018, the Academy announced that they would postpone the awards until further notice, in order to deal with the fallout of the accusations.
Before 2018, the last time The Nobel Prize in Literature went un-awarded was in 1943, when the Academy determined that no author had met their requirements of having “produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.
