Last autumn, The Swedish Academy—the prize-guys behind literature’s highest honor, the Nobel Prize—abstained from declaring a 2018 winner. The decision made sense, as the selection committee was being pulled apart from all sides. As… Read more »

In April of this year, the Swedish Academy, which determines the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was thrown into utter disarry, when Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of Academy member… Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about some #MeToo drama that has sent the Nobel committee into a full-on Blåsväder (a Swedish cousin to our own “shit storm”). Well, the Blåsväder has yet… Read more »

It’s not often that a king’s sadness is covered by the Associated Press, and a headline such as “Swedish king saddened by trouble in Nobel literature body” portends strange times… Read more »