World Scene: Sweden

Possible 'leak' for Nobel

The Swedish Academy is concerned its decision to award Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio the Nobel Prize for Literature may have leaked ahead of the announcement, a prominent member of the academy was quoted as saying on Friday.

The academy's permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, said he intended to look into the matter, but that it was unclear how or if the information had somehow got out prematurely.