Mats Malm requested the Exchange House's call logs in connection with John Banville's statement that someone called and tricked him. Now he confirms for Swedish Radio's Culture News that the call does not come from the Swedish Academy.
However, Mats Malm has no plans at present to report the incident.
"It's not something I've planned, but it's all very uncomfortable," he tells Kulturnytt.
Author John Banville, previously awarded the Man Booker Prize, received a call from someone claiming to be Mats Malm with the message that he would have won the Nobel Prize. After the announcement (by the real award winners Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke) the same person calls again and says that the Academy has regretted. When Banville called back the current number ended up at the Swedish Academy's office. Mats Malm requested phone logs on calls made from the house and the call does not come from the Exchange House.
According to the Permanent Secretary, it sounds like a young person.