- Cancellation and shame.The Nobel Literature disaster
A little memory: a year and a half ago news began to run about the behavior of Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of one of the juries of the Nobel Prize for Literature and achiever in the environment of the prize. Arnauld had handled leaks about the ruling and had been accused of sexual harassment. Six jurors resigned in a month and the Nobel Academy canceled the 2018 prize with a promise of redemption: in 2019 two Nobels would be awarded.
This will happen this Thursday. The Academy will announce as if nothing had happened two names that, in anyone's intuition, would complement each other. A poet and a narrator? A European and an Afrian or Asian? One or two women? Bookmakers, like every year, point to their favorites, among which the usual names appear next to authors who only have a loose story translated into Spanish (this is the case of the Chinese Can Xue, an unknown to the ISBN Spanish). The chart that accompanies these lines tries. Put it on the map.
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