Nobel Prize for Literature delayed

The organisation that decides the Nobel Prize for Literature has said it will not announce an award this year, after it was engulfed in a scandal over sexual assault allegations. The Swedish Academy has been in crisis over its handling of allegations against the husband of a member, BBC reports. "We find it necessary to commit time to recovering public confidence in the academy before the next laureate can be announced," Anders Olsson, the academy's permanent secretary, said in a statement. He said the academy was acting "out of respect for previous and future literature laureates, the Nobel Foundation and the general public." The academy said this year's literature laureate will be announced in 2019. This is the first year since World War II that the panel has decided not to bestow one of the world’s most revered cultural honors.