In a press release from Svenska Akademien on Wednesday, it’s revealed that the writer Karl Ove Knausgård will receive their Nordic price for 2019.
the Prize is awarded to people in the nordic countries that have made a significant effort within the Academy’s business or area of interest.
Earlier, it is Thomas Bredshoff, Monika Fagerholm, Dag Solstad and Agneta Pleijel who has received the award. The prize is awarded 3. april and is of 400 000. This year also celebrates Svenska Akademien 200 years.
Knausgård has made her mark as a writer the last few years. Among other things, for autobiography in six parts, “My struggle”, which came out in the period 2009-2011.
Knausgård is not available for comment Wednesday.
Weakened confidence
the Academy awards a number of distinguished awards, and is internationally most known for his role as a jury for the nobel Prize in literature.
In the last year was not the nobel Prize in literature, awarded due to weakened confidence to Akademien.
the Crisis that papered Swedish online newspapers, was seriously triggered when three of the members of the Svenska Akademien resigned in april of last year.
Kjell Espmark, Klas Ístergren and Peter Englund chose to leave the committee due to a conflict around Katarina Frostenson, one of the committee’s other members.
Therefore, it is full of crisis in the Swedish Nobel committee
Frostenson is married with kulturprofilen Jean-Claude Arnault. He was the core of the conflict, and was accused of sexual assault, harassment and leaks.
In november 2017 told namely the 18 women that they had been exposed to sexual harassment and abuse by a man referred to as “kulturprofilen”.
he was Later identified as Jean-Claude Arnault, a theater director and husband to the writings of Katarina Frostenson, one of the academy’s members.
72-year-old Arnault was in 2018 sentenced to two years in prison for one case of rape. In the beginning of December he was convicted for another rape, and the judgment was sharpened to two and a half years in prison. He has appealed the judgment to the Swedish supreme court.
Kulturprofilen Jean-Claude Arnault sentenced to two years in prison for one rape
