Condé wins alternative Nobel prize
16 October 2018
Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé has won the New Academy Prize in literature, a one-off award created to replace this year’s Nobel Prize for literature, which was cancelled following a sexual...
Murakami withdraws from alternative Nobel Prize
18 September 2018
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has asked to be withdrawn from Sweden's New Academy prize in literature, reports Reuters. In a post on its Facebook page, the New Academy said that Murakami...
Alternative Nobel Prize in Literature planned
4 July 2018
A group of Swedish cultural figures have joined together to bestow an alternate literature award to replace this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, reports the Guardian. As previously reported, the...