Nobel Prize to return in 2019 (and make up for lost time)
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 »
Is the newest committee member for Nobel in Literature mocking us all? Or is that just a bad author photo?
It seems now, however, that the first steps of reconciliation are beginning to clack.… Read more »
Maryse Condé won the New Academy Prize
The Guadeloupean novelist spoke on video during the Stockholm-based ceremony.… Read more »
New Academy emphasizes respect, empathy, openness
The nominees for the New Academy Prize for literature have been announced. The New Academy has clearly taken steps to make it’s nomination process distinctly transparent and democratic, compiling their original… Read more »