Two Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after sexual assault scandal
(The Guardian Books News)

Atwood and Murakami among favourites for prize as academy tries to rebuild its reputationThe Nobel prize in literature will be awarded twice on Thursday, after the Swedish body that selects the laureates was engulfed in a sexual assault scandal that forced it to postpone the 2018 ceremony.Among the favourites are the author of The Handmaid´s Tale, Margaret Atwood, and the poet Anne Carson, both from Canada, the novelist Maryse Condé, from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the Japanese author Haruki Murakami and the Kenyan writer Ng~ug~i wa Thiong´o. Continue reading...