Scrapping of Nobel literature award: MeToo issue as grave as World War?

The Nobel Foundation - which is ultimately responsible for administering the intentions of the will of Alfred Nobel - has said it supports the decision made by the Swedish Academy

The Swedish Academy has announced it will not select a Nobel laureate in literature for 2018. Instead, two laureates will be appointed 2019, one for 2018 and one for 2019. The decision is not unique. The prize has been withheld on no fewer than seven occasions in the past and it has also been postponed for a year five times previously – the last time being in 1949.

The reason for postponing the prize this time, however, is exceptional since it is not related to the academy’s inability to unify behind one single candidate, but is instead the