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May 4, 2018 · The Nobel Prize was established by Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel. The academy said the decision to postpone this year's prize had been made due to a lack of public confidence. "The Academy needs ...
Sep 20, 2018 · The committee always had a poor eye for female poets. Only four have won the prize: Grazia Deledda (1926), Gabriela Mistral (1945), Nelly Sachs (1966) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996). Two who are ...
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Oct 10, 2019 · Polish author Olga Tokarczuk (left) won the postponed 2018 Nobel Prize for literature and Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke won the 2019 award. The Swedish Academy did not hand out a ...
May 2, 2018 · May 2, 2018. STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature always draws great interest, but the organization behind the prestigious award finds itself in the throes of a high-profile crisis so ...
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- Has The Prize Been Cancelled before?
- What Now?
In the wake of the #MeToo movement last year, 18 women levelled allegations against Jean-Claude Arnault, an acclaimed French photographer. He was running a cultural project funded by the Swedish Academy and is also married to one of the committee members, poet/writer Katherine Frostenson. Mr. Arnault has denied all the allegations. However, several...
The institution, founded in 1786, has on seven previous occasions chosen to reserve the prize: in 1915, 1919, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1936 and 1943. “On five of those occasions, the prize was delayed then awarded at the same time as the following year’s prize,” the Academy said in a statement. The last time that the Nobel Prize had been cancelled was in ...
In a statement released on its website, the Academy said, “It needs time to regain its full complement, engage a larger number of active members and regain confidence in its work, before the next Literature Prize winner is declared.” But commentators have said that the global image of the Academy has been ‘seriously tarnished.’ The Nobel Foundation...
May 4, 2018 · American playwright Eugene O’Neill was awarded the 1936 prize a year later, in 1937, at the same time as that year’s winner received his prize. The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature is being ...
May 4, 2018 · The Nobel prize in literature, which was postponed on Friday following a sex assault scandal, has always been an anomaly among the family of awards established in 1895 by the will of the Swedish ...
