Scandal at the Academy

#metoo hits the Nobel Prize

By: Richard Orange

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The #metoo movement, and its unveiling of sexual harassment by powerful men, had shaken the world. But few of its repercussions rival the decision in May 2018 to postpone the Nobel Prize in Literature. Richard Orange, who has covered the unfolding scandal for the UK's Guardian and Telegraph newspapers, here tells the story of how a sexual harassment scandal nearly destroyed the Swedish Academy, one of Sweden's most powerful literary institutions, and of how a newspaper article saw Jean-Claude Arnault, one of Stockholm's leading cultural players, sent to jail.