(Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP, File) (Associated Press)COPENHAGEN, Denmark — There won’t be a Nobel Prize in Literature this year but the Swedish Academy that awards the prestigious prize is still in the limelight. A verdict in his case is expected on Monday, the same day that the 2018 Nobel Prize announcements kick off with the Karolinska Institute announcing who wins the Nobel award in physiology or medicine. Yet no matter what the verdict for Arnault, the Swedish Academy itself has no guarantee that it will be allowed to keep awarding the literature prize. He even suggested there could be no Nobel Literature Prize awarded in 2019 either — which is counter to the academy’s current plan to award both the 2018 and the 2019 literature Nobels next year. In May, the Swedish Academy postponed the 2018 prize with the intention of awarding it in 2019.

Source: Washington Post September 30, 2018 06:56 UTC