The Nobel Prize in Literature is to be shelved this year after the academy that gives the award was plunged into crisis by a deepening sexual harassment scandal.
The Swedish Academy, almost half of whose members have resigned in protest at how it has handled allegations against the husband of a member, said it would award two prizes in 2019. It last postponed the prize — given in recent years to Kazuo Ishiguro and Bob Dylan — seven decades ago.
Held up as a paragon of gender equality, Sweden has been roiled by a number of #MeToo scandals in the theatre, film, music and most damagingly the Swedish Academy.
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