A member of the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature said Wednesday she is leaving the body, the latest person to quit amid sex abuse and financial crimes scandals at the exclusive group.
Jayne Svenungsson is the eighth person to quit or to be forced off the 18-member board of the Swedish Academy since the scandals broke last year.
Swedish broadcaster SVT reported that Svenungsson, who joined in December, left after "careful consideration." The broadcaster quoted her as saying she wanted to focus on her full-time job as a university theology professor.
The Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, Anders Olsson, told Sweden's TT news agency that "it has been an extremely hard year for all of us, I can understand the difficulty she has had as a new member to enter the academy in the middle of this war."
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