The Swedish Academy, which has awarded the Nobel Literature Prize since 1901, said on Monday it would expand its prize jury to include outsiders for the first time following a scandal that forced it to postpone this year’s award.
The venerable institution has been in crisis mode since November 2017, after a deep rift emerged among Academy members about how to manage its longstanding ties to a Frenchman accused — and now convicted — of rape.
For the first time in 70 years, the Academy postponed this year's literature prize by a year while it attempts to sort
The venerable institution has been in crisis mode since November 2017, after a deep rift emerged among Academy members about how to manage its longstanding ties to a Frenchman accused — and now convicted — of rape.
For the first time in 70 years, the Academy postponed this year's literature prize by a year while it attempts to sort