The press release is very brief. In consultation with the Nobel Foundation the Swedish Academy have decided to create for the awarding of the Nobel prizes, 2019, and 2020 a new Committee. The Surprise: in addition to five members of the Academy are also five external experts may have a say in the next two Nobel prize winners in literature.
This Opening of the decision-making body is obviously a consequence of the scandal of the husband of the Academy member Katerina Frostenson, Jean-Claude Arnault. Against Arnault have been indicted for rape, in addition, he is suspected, the names of the winners to have a pre-blabbed. An indirect consequence of the scandal was that the awarding of the literature Nobel has been subjected to price for 2018.
The Nobel Foundation that manages the Sahabet estate of the original founder, Alfred Nobel, had made in the summer conditions to be fulfilled by the Swedish Academy, so she could continue to be for the award of the most prestigious literary prize in the world, responsible. Otherwise, a different Board could accept the award.
According to the newspaper “Dagens Nyheter”, which had first reported about the new prize Committee, was one of these conditions been that external experts should be involved in the decision. First, to have the report in the newspaper, according to the Academy Permanent Secretary Anders Olsson still blocked – now, it is yet so.
The five Academy members in the Committee are Horace Engdahl, Kristina Lugn, Anders Olsson, Jesper Svenbro, and Per Wästberg, the chair of the Committee.
As the external experts have been appointed: the 31-Year-old literary and theatre critic, Mikaela Blomqvist, the 56-year-old Kristoffer Leandoer – a connoisseur of French and Fantasy literature, the 45-year-old Translator, Henrik Petersen, the 73-year-old Roman author Gun-Britt Sundström, as well as the only 27-year-old critic Rebecka Kärde, resident in Berlin.
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