With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In

The New Academy formed to fill the gap as the Swedish Academy attempts to recover from a scandal; ‘I thought we have to do something new’

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In a year when the Swedish Academy won’t name a Nobel laureate in literature, a pop-up nonprofit called the New Academy is aiming to fill the gap.

On Oct. 12 in Stockholm, on the heels of the various Nobel announcements, the New Academy’s jury, led by publishing-industry veteran Ann Pålsson, will name the winner of the New Prize in Literature. The organization sprang up after the Swedish Academy said in May that it would postpone the Nobel in literature for a year.

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