'New literary prize' to replace the Nobel Prize for literature that caused a sexual harassment started in Sweden

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The Nobel Prize for people who have made remarkable achievements in each field is a major event that the world media draw attention every year. However, the Nobel Prize for literature in 2018 reveals the policy of waiting for the winners to be announced as " there were sexual harassment and information leaks by spouse of Academy member ." Meanwhile, it is reported that a plan to "cultural people gathered and award a prize to substitute the Nobel Prize for literature" was launched.

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Mr. Jean Claude Arnaud , a husband of Mr. Katarina Frostenson , a poet who is a member of the Swedish Academy who is a member of the Swedish Academy, who is the subject of the Nobel Prize for literature, who is also known as a photographer and film director suspects sexual harassment and sexual assault It is done. Mr. Arnaud denies all allegations, but alleged suspicion not only of sexual harassment but also "the prize winner of the Nobel Prize for literature was leaked to the outside in advance", and it has become a big scandal .

In May 2018, the Swedish Academy announced "We will not announce the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature Award" and revealed a desire to focus on rebuilding the lost confidence. Since the selection-oriented Swedish Academy abandoned the selection, it is decided that no official Nobel prize will be awarded. Meanwhile, more than 100 Swedish novelists, actors, journalists and cultural people gathered together and established a new organization called " New Academy ", "with the same time schedule as the Nobel Prize award ceremony, We will announce the winners of the literary awards we selected for ".

The New Academy is a declaration at the time of establishment, arguing that "literature and culture should promote ideas such as democracy, transparency, sympathy, respect and privilege · prejudice · gender discrimination" . As the importance of literature with the power to break the people's silence and release from oppression has been increasing in recent years, the New Academy decided to award the 2018 best literary award, a substitute for the Nobel Prize for literature He said that.

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In selecting the winners, the New Academy invites all Swedish librarians to recommend writers appropriate for literary awards. Recommended writers are OK in any country writer anywhere in the world, "What is writing at least two books" "One of them is published within 10 years" is a necessary condition.

In addition, the artist seeking out by the New Academy is regarded as a writer who wrote a story about "people living in the world", and according to Nobel's will, the original headquarters Nobel laid the criteria for selection of "ideal directional literature" It seems that literary awards have established selection criteria from a slightly different angle. After summarizing the nominate writers, the New Academy is going to review the public with the addition of four prominent judges at the same time as the general voting and announcing the winner in October 2018 as the announcement of the Nobel Prize.

The New Academy says he will give a lecture on the award, and tells people that "important cultural achievements should not be achieved in the context of high-pressure language, fraud and abuse" . However, the New Academy does not intend to continue this award in the future, and after the award ceremony, it will be dissolved on December 11, 2018. In addition, the original Nobel Laureate Literary Award says to announce two Nobel Prize winners in 2019 instead of waiting for the 2018 winners to be announced.

by Queen's University