Nobel body: ‘unacceptable behaviour’ not widely known

By Abbey Westbury
April 20 2018 05:14 AM

CP1124693769 — Women wearing pussy - bow ties as a large crowd gathers in the Stortorget square in Stockholm, while the Swedish Academy held its usual Thursday meeting at the Old Stock Exchange building on Thursday April 19, 2018. The crowd have gathered to show their support for former Academy member and Permanent Secretary Sara Danius who stepped down wearing her hallmark, a pussy bow last Thursday. (Jonas EkstrÃ¶mer / TT via AP)

COPENHAGEN – The Swedish Academy, which hands out the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature, says an investigation has found “unacceptable behaviour in the form of unwanted intimacy” has taken place within its ranks.

The 18-member board has in recent weeks been embroiled in a sex-abuse scandal that the investigation report concluded Friday was “not generally known.”

It has led to the departure of six of members of the Academy and tarnished the prize’s reputation.

Sweden’s prime minister, the king and the Nobel board have all expressed their concerns.

The academy commissioned lawyers to investigate sexual misconduct claims from 18 women against Jean-Claude Arnault, a major cultural figure in Sweden who is married to Katarina Frostenson, a poet who is a member of the academy.

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