Sweden Charges Frenchman at Center of Nobel Scandal

Academy canceled awarding this year’s prize in literature in order to repair damage from sexual misconduct

Swedish prosecutors filed rape charges against a Frenchman at the center of a monthslong sexual scandal that led the institution that awards the Nobel in Literature to cancel this year’s prize.

Jean-Claude Arnault, a photographer and cultural figure in Sweden, was charged with raping a woman twice in Stockholm in 2011, a Swedish prosecutor said Tuesday.

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