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Nobel Foundation says literature prize may be delayed again

The Nobel Foundation on Friday said this year's literature prize, already postponed until 2019 due to a sexual assault scandal, may be delayed further.

Published: 26 May 2018 11:10 CEST
Nobel Foundation says literature prize may be delayed again
Nobel Foundation executive director Lars Heikensten. File photo: Tomas Oneborg/SvD/TT

Lars Heikensten, executive director of the foundation said the 2018 prize would be “awarded when the Swedish Academy has regained confidence or is in the process of doing so to a sufficient extent”.

“This means that there is no 2019 deadline,” Heikensten told Radio Sverige.

The body has been in turmoil since November when Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter — in the wake of the global #MeToo campaign — published the testimonies of 18 women who claimed to have been raped, sexually assaulted or harassed by an influential figure with long-standing ties to the Academy.

Disagreements within the prestigious institution on how to deal with the issue sowed deep discord among its 18 members and prompted six to quit, including the first woman permanent secretary Sara Danius.

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NOBEL PRIZE

Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Literature Prize

Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said.

Published: 7 October 2021 13:31 CEST
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Literature Prize
A copy of Andulrazak Gurnah's book on the stands at the Swedish Academy on Thursday. Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP

Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar, but who arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s, was honoured “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”

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