The Nobel Foundation has assigned the Swedish Academy the job of choosing the annual winner of the Literature Nobel Prize. However Horace Engdahl and his ilk have brought the Academy into such disrepute that the Nobel Foundation may find it necessary to distance themselves from the Academy and protect the Nobel brand.
This year’s award of the Nobel Prize in Literature may be postponed after the crisis in the Swedish Academy.
“We are working on it right now. We will return to the question. You will be notified soon” said permanent secretary Anders Olsson.
The storm around the Swedish Academy continues, and may affect the award of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. According to Kulturnytt’s information, there are some within the committee in the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel Prize winner, and the , who believe that the prize can not or should not be awarded this year.
If this Academy chooses, any prize winner would be horribly tainted.
The problem is that those within the Academy who have fatally tarnished it, don’t get it and are in denial. They do not even see what they have done.
The Nobel Foundation needs to cancel this year’s award and to lay down the rules for any newly constituted Academy to choose a winner.
Horace Engdahl and co. have brought the Academy into disrepute (image TT)
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