Two people have resigned from a committee that was established to oversee reforms to the Swedish Academy’s Nobel prize for literature. This puts the net resignation count for any committees… Read more »

At last, the art of Nobel-prize-winning literary icon Bob Dylan can be encountered in a new format … audio. Ok, so you’ve been able to listen to Bob Dylan’s work many decades… Read more »

After a year with no Nobel prize in literature (read about the Swedish Academy’s sexual abuse and financial misconduct scandal here), expectations were high. Two awards would be given: one… Read more »

The Swedish Academy is set to announce two more Nobel laureates next week, after it did not hand out the prize last year. The postponement last year was the result… Read more »

It seems now, however, that the first steps of reconciliation are beginning to clack.… Read more »

The Guadeloupean novelist spoke on video during the Stockholm-based ceremony.… Read more »

The scandal plaguing the Swedish Academy found some small measure of resolution last week, as Jean-Claude Arnaud, husband of former Academy member Katarina Frostenson, was sentenced to two years in prison… 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 »

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 »

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 »