Poet quits Swedish Academy after being found to leak Nobel winner names


  • World
  • Friday, 18 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO - The member of the Swedish Academy and wife of Frenchman Jean-Claude Arnault, Katarina Frostenson, arrives to the Svea Hovratt appeal court on the third day of Arnault's appeal trial in Stockholm, Sweden, November 14, 2018. Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The scandal-plagued Swedish body that awards the Nobel Prize for literature said on Friday that one of its members would leave after an investigation determined she had leaked the names of winners.

The poet Katarina Frostenson and her photographer husband Jean-Claude Arnault, who was jailed last year for rape, have been at the centre of turmoil at the Swedish Academy, which led to it awarding no Nobel Prize in literature last year. Two prize winners will be picked this year.

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