Rape, infighting, secrets, financial malpractice; the scandal surrounding the Nobel Prize in Literature began in November 2017 when Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter published allegations by eighteen women that they had been sexually assaulted by Jean-Claude Arnault, a 71-year-old Swedish-French photographer. Arnault was married to Katarina Frostenson, a member of the Swedish Academy, and over the following months the man who boasted to be the "19th member of the committee" was accused of 20 years of sexual assaults, including incidents at properties owned by the Academy-not to mention other illegal activities, such as leaking the names of soon-to-be laureates, which are subject to heavy betting.
Do We Still Need the Nobel Prize in Literature? – Electric Literature
11 March 2019
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