First, no price, is now equal to two, The Swedish Academy awarded this year’s two literature Nobel prizes and the cancelled award for the year 2018 to catch up. Now, the dates have been announced.
The Nobel laureate will be 7 this year between the. and 14. October proclaimed. The Nobel Foundation announced. The beginning of the scientific prices, how each year in the categories of medicine, physics and chemistry on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the week, followed by the Nobel prize in literature on Thursday.
At the conclusion of the actual Nobel week will be announced on Friday of this year’s Nobel peace prize laureate. 14. October is not announced as the Last of the Nobel prize for Economics, which appears in the will of award founder Alfred Nobel and not one of the traditional Nobel prizes. The Nobel prizes are traditionally given at the beginning of October known. The awards are presented at 10. December – the anniversary of the death of Nobel in Stockholm and Oslo.
The past year behind
After the cancellation of the Nobel prize for literature in the previous year, a prize winner for the year 2018 as well as for the year 2019, in this autumn announced. In accordance with the internal problems for the award of competent Academy is of the view that the Institution had taken several important measures to have the trust in you to restore, explained to the Nobel Foundation in March. With these reforms, the Academy have the opportunity to celebrate the past year and the problems associated with behind.
Resulted in the cancellation of the prize for literature, 2018: Jean-Claude Arnault and his wife Katarina Frostenson
The Swedish Academy is for the end of 2017, due to a comprehensive scandal in a deep crisis. The affair revolves around the now out of the body-worn poet Katarina Frostenson and her husband Jean-Claude Arnault. Him had accused in November of 2017, a total of 18 women of sexual harassment and Assault. For rape, he was sentenced in December 2018 by the court of appeal in Stockholm to two and a half years in prison. As already against the judgment of the lower court, he went in appeal.
Trust restore
The Academy accuses Frostenson and Arnault also, the Nobel prize winner for literature in advance blabbed and to have that confidentiality breached. Because of the crisis in the Academy 2018 was awarded for the first time in nearly 70 years not a Nobel prize for literature. At that time, the Jury had already announced that they wanted to announce the price for 2018 in the coming year, together with the one for 2019.
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The Nobel prize in literature: How does the award?The Entscheiderin: the Swedish Academy
In 1786, after the model of the Académie française, of king Gustav III founded in order to promote the Swedish language and literature award of the Swedish Academy since 1901, the Nobel. De Aderton (dt. The eight-ten) – 18 seats – will take its decision in October. The award of the coveted medal will be held on 10. December, Alfred Nobel’s birthday, instead.
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The Nobel prize in literature: How does the award?Lengthy Process
Members of the Academy, a Swedish writer, literary and language scholars, historians, as well as a famous lawyer. Are appointed for life. Between the awarding of the Nobel prize and the first preparations for more than a year. The first order of business in the process the Nobel Committee will, in General, in the September of the previous year…
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The Nobel prize in literature: How does the award?The apprentice: the Nobel Committee
…then it is sent to around 700 nomination forms to “qualified individuals and organizations,” including members of the Nobel prize for literature-Academy, previous winners of the prize, or a literary scholar. The Committee consists of six members who are elected for a period of three years from the ranks of the Academy. Chairman of the author Per Wästberg (image).
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The Nobel prize in literature: How does the award?The Elite
All forms received by the end of January the Committee will be evaluated by additional experts. To April, the circle of possible candidates is limited to the Nobel prize for literature by the Committee already on 15-20 candidates a month later, only five candidates remain. From this time on, the Academy takes over…
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The Nobel prize in literature: How does the award?Read, discuss, decide
…you will now receive from the Committee the list of five candidates from the shortlist. Thus, the procurement process is in its hot Phase: In the summer, members read and discuss the Academy, write their reports and speak in September, especially about the literary merits of the contenders. The only vote missing…
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The Nobel prize in literature: How does the award?On target: the announcement and award ceremony
At the beginning of October, the Academy votes and announces the result. By the candidate who has received more than half of the votes cast. Last year, Japan was the Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro offers over eight million Swedish kronor (approximately € 800,000) award. The remaining nominees will remain in 50 years of intelligence.
It was on the grounds that first, the Public’s confidence in the Academy must be restored before a new price will carrier announced. The Nobel Foundation had called for as a response, 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.
Not the first cancellation
“Two Nobel prizes have hoped for, as we know it”, said the Chairman of the Swedish Academy, Anders Olsson, in March, the daily newspaper “Dagens Nyheter”. At the same time, its Institution, announced that Horace Engdahl will not leave the Nobel Committee, but the Academy. This decision he had taken, to stand for the future of the Nobel prize and the cooperation between the Academy and the Nobel Foundation in the future in the way. Engdahl was considered to be controversial. In the summer of 2018, three other Academy members had called for his resignation, particularly because he had spoken out again and again for his friend Arnault and the accusations of the 18 women in question.
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Scandals, and the Nobel prize for literature-AcademyDidn’t want to talk: Bob Dylan
As the first musician in 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. The music world celebrated him for it. However, Dylan distanced himself and seemed to be little interested in the high award. He said his participation in the award ceremony and sent a speech to Read. In March of 2017, he then came over but a short time in Stockholm and got his medal.
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Scandals, and the Nobel prize for literature-AcademyLate honor for the first: Thomas Mann
As Thomas Mann in 1929, got the price, was it not for his just-published “the magic mountain”. He was awarded for his debut novel “The buddenbrooks”. The was, however, already almost 30 years old. Because the Jury but the magic mountain was to “wordy and cumbersome”, for the older work: “A highlight in the contemporary novel seal par excellence”.
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Scandals, and the Nobel prize for literature-AcademyAlso, no literature. But strong words: Winston Churchill
Actually, the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill would have been a candidate for the Nobel peace prize twice he was on the nomination list. In 1953, he received the prize – for literature. The Jury praised his “mastery of historical and biographical representation”, as well as his brilliant “oratory in defending human values.”
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Scandals, and the Nobel prize for literature-AcademyWas the price not accept: Boris Pasternak
The Soviet author, world-famous for his novel “doctor Zhivago”, was awarded in 1958. His government, however, threatened him with deprivation of citizenship, he should accept the prize. Pasternak gave in – which brought him posthaste to the exclusion from the writers ‘ Union of the USSR. In spite of everything, Pasternak remained in the Soviet Union. His son, the Nobel medal in 1989, picked up in Stockholm.
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Scandals, and the Nobel prize for literature-AcademyJust wanted to the money: Jean-Paul Sartre
In 1964, the French playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre should get the Nobel prize. He refused, however, surprisingly (“Any price.”) It was said of him that he auditioned years later carefully at the Nobel prize Committee, whether he could not get the 273.000 Swedish crowns, perhaps, but still. But this is only a versified anecdote.
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Scandals, and the Nobel prize for literature-Academy“No Literature”: Dario Fo
He was only a “entertaining juggler, and author of world-class,” was the indignant literary Elite, as the Italian playwright Dario Fo in 1997 was awarded. As a satirist Fo hit back with its own weapons. His speech in the Swedish Academy, he gave the title “Against outspoken jugglers” and made from the venerable award ceremony, a satire show.
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Scandals, and the Nobel prize for literature-AcademyTo many people: Elfriede Jelinek
The Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek did not want to come to the award ceremony, she was honored in 2004. You had a fear of large crowds and sudden popularity: “I’m not mentally able to me personally, to suspend.” This was also recorded by the Nobel Committee. After all, Jelinek held her Nobel prize speech, nevertheless, via a video message.
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Scandals, and the Nobel prize for literature-AcademyWith the death threats: Salman Rushdie
Because he found “The satanic verses” (1988) as blasphemy, was Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, a bounty on the Indian-British author who had to live for years in hiding. The Academy was silent, but two members of the Jury resigned. Only 27 years later, the Academy condemned the death threat, signed by Rushdie, but never with the Nobel prize for literature.
The literature prize has not been cancelled in 2018 for the first Time, the last of which he was not awarded between 1940 and 1943 because of the Second world war. Several times he was moved between 1915 and 1949, in addition to a year, because at that time, not a worthy price had been found carrier. The US writer William Faulkner was awarded the prize for 1949, and finally in the year 1950 awarded. That instead of war, or lack of suitable candidates in the past year, a scandal to the cancellation, however, was a novelty.
pgr/kle (dpa, nobelprize.org)