Last year, the award ceremony was canceled due to a scandal. The prize jury had taken after the incident, reforms, and wool to restore confidence, writes the Nobel Foundation.
This year will be announced in the autumn of both of the winners of the 2018 as well as for the year 2019, as the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm announced. In accordance with the internal problems for the awarding of the prize, relevant Academy, the Nobel Foundation was of the view that the Institution had taken several important measures to have the trust in you to restore.
The Swedish Academy is for the end of 2017 in a deep crisis. She was shaken by a scandal involving rape allegations and a secret betrayal. The affair revolves around the now out of the body-worn poet Katarina Frostenson and her husband Jean-Claude Arnault, who had been condemned in December by the court of appeal in Stockholm for the rape of two and a half years in prison. He has also appealed against this judgment. The Academy accuses the two in addition, the literature Nobel prize winner in advance blabbed and to have that confidentiality breached.
In the Wake of the Nobel prize for literature in 2018 has not been awarded. The Nobel Foundation had called for several Changes in the Academy, so that this must take the award again. The Institution that awards the Nobel prize in literature since 1901, was fulfilled, to a large extent.
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