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Sweden

No Nobel after abuse scandals

The Nobel Prize in literature will not be awarded this year following sex-abuse allegations and other issues that have affected the image of the Swedish Academy that selects the winner. The academy said on Friday that the 2018 prize will be given in 2019. The decision was made at a weekly meeting in Stockholm a day earlier, on the grounds that the academy is in no shape to pick a winner after a string of sex abuse allegations and financial crimes scandals. It will be the first time since World War II that the prestigious award is not handed out.