This year's Nobel Prize for Literature is being postponed until 2019, but the scandal engulfing the Swedish Academy, which decides the winners, has tarnished the group and likely damaged the world's best known book prize. 'Highly secretive'Is it a great loss for the world that we won't have a Nobel literature winner this year? "In order for [the Nobel Prize] to work, you have to believe in the utmost integrity and probity of the people involved. Women are seen protesting outside the Swedish Academy headquarters in Stockholm in April. Transparency requiredFacing this pressure from #MeToo, the Swedish Academy joins many organizations worldwide tasked with fixing themselves.

Source: CBC News May 05, 2018 09:11 UTC