The crisis in the Swedish Academy - the lit Nobel Prize body - becomes deeper.
Two members today announced they resign (though you formally can't resign, you
can always stop going to meetings and quit academy work). According to news
media, it is in protest as they wanted another member sacked in the sexual
harassment scandal but lost the vote on the issue. The two members quitting are
Kjell Espmark and Klas Östergren (two others have quit before, over other
issues - the 18 member body is now down to 14)
English summary:
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/7lQmj9/two-authors-leave-swedish-academy-im-out-of-the-game
"Klas Östergren rules out The Academy’s handling of its latest problems and
calls it a ”betrayal against its founders”. ”I’m leaving the table, I’m out of
the game”, he writes in a message to the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Shortly after Östergrens announcment to leave – the author Kjell Espmark
followed his lead.
”When prominent voices within the Academy choose to put friendship and other
irrelevant regards ahead of the responsibility for its integrity - then I can
no longer proceed in the work”, he writes in a message to the daily newspaper
Dagens Nyheter."
AE: Though you can't resign, you can be sacked, according to the statutes. (It
is rare, but has happened a long time ago, in the 1800s.) Aftonbladet doesn't
say it, but the person they most likely wanted to sack was Katarina Frostenson,
poet and wife of the "Culture Profile" accused of the sexual harassments. She
has - it seems - turned a blind eye to the harassment allegations and maybe
more seriously leaked info about Nobel prize winners in advance to her husband.
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