Two Nobel prizes for literature to be awarded in 2019
The Nobel Foundation blocked the Swedish Academy from awarding the prize in 2018 after sexual misconduct claims against the husband of one of its board members
Stockholm — Two Nobel prizes will be awarded for literature in 2019, after the Swedish literary academy that chooses the winner cleaned house following scandals that prevented 2018's prize from being given, the Nobel Foundation said on Tuesday. The Nobel Foundation blocked the Swedish Academy from awarding the prize in 2018 after sexual misconduct allegations against the husband of one of its board members and accusations of leaks had effectively paralysed the institution. "The Nobel Prize in Literature will once again be awarded, and this autumn Laureates for both 2018 and 2019 will be announced," the Nobel Foundation said in a statement. "The Nobel Foundation's board of directors believes that the steps that the Swedish Academy has taken and intends to take will create good opportunities for restoring trust in the Academy as a prize-awarding institution." Lars Heikensten, head of the foundation that administers the prizes created in the will of dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, had ...
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