2018 was the year in which the Nobel prize has lost its Reputation, its high sentimental value for those who receive him (to be), the authors, not least of all, but also for the world’s only interested in literature, if the prize is awarded annually in October. The poor Nobel prize for literature can, of course, nothing. The debt to the Jury which awards him, the so-called Swedish Academy, the ride to the rape allegations against the husband of one of their members by the end of 2017 hopelessly absent and not ready to provide the literature with a Nobel prize in literature on the own troubled Affairs. Yes, the thought, in their sinecures. And was there, on the supposedly good, respectable side only insufficient, a new beginning.
And so the only public, also festive meeting of the Academy, the year just before Christmas, in the presence of the Swedish Royal family was, an Image of the turmoil, self-destructive year 2018. Of the eighteen members of the Academy, only seven were present, all men. The Rest is resigned, the Academy’s work, rest or remained – as the poet Kristina Lugn – of the Celebration. After all, three new members took their places: the Iranian-Swedish author Jila Mossaed, the lawyer Eric M. Runesson and the literary scholar Mats Malm. From a different room, you were left to the in accordance with Tradition, and after. It had, however, with the Tradition. Only half the Royal family was present, remained standing at the time of arrival is equal to the collection of the Academy members for these non-charge – a clear miss billigungs. Also, the Director of the Nobel Foundation, Lars Heikensten had not appeared, in addition, the Academy member Horace Engdahl was not allowed to keep allegedly on the instructions of the court of his planned speech – he is one of the hard-liners and Familiar of the rapist, Jean-Claude Arnault. And the three new members could and should not have any More on their (usually deceased, but this Time, just still very lively) predecessor. What Jila Mossad considered only partially. She praised in her speech, explicitly previously on your chair seat at the end of a writer Kerstin Ekman, in particular for their attitude at the time of the against Salman Rushdie issued Fatwa by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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How to do it now? By Anders Olsson, the interim Chairman of the Academy, no new impetus came in this evening. He said in his final speech in the review of the “seven samurai in the final battle”; to the revelations about the poet Katarina Frostenson, had put straps to her husband, Jean-Claude Arnault prior to the announcement, the name of the Nobel prize, he only speak in mid-January. What relates to the core Academy, it seems, is 2019 not better than the year 2018.
