Swedish Academy says will postpone 2018 Nobel literature prize award
No Nobel Prize for literature will be given this year, following a scandal over misconduct allegations that has seen a string of board members resign from the board of the Swedish Academy that awards it, the Academy said on Friday (May 4).
No Nobel Prize for literature will be given this year, following a scandal over misconduct allegations that has seen a string of board members resign from the board of the Swedish Academy that awards it, the Academy said on Friday (May 4).
It said the aim was to award the 2018 prize next year, along with that year's prize, having arrived at the decision "in view of the currently diminished Academy and the reduced public confidence in the Academy".
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.
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.
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