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Vote Chimamanda & Nnedi For Nobel Alternative Prize For Literature by olagamalin(m): 4:04pm On Jul 23, 2018
After the Swedish Academy cancelled the traditional prize this year, the New Academy plans a parallel honour in October


The Swedish Academy is not awarding a Nobel prize for literature this year, but a group of Swedish cultural figures are coming together to bestow their own version of the world’s most prestigious literary award instead, as an act of protest at the scandal that has engulfed the academy.

The 2018 Nobel prize for literature was cancelled in May, following allegations of sexual assault made against Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of Katarina Frostenson.

The winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature will be announced on Oct. 14, and will receive one million kronor, or around $112,000. There will also be a banquet in the winner’s honor, just as there would be for a Nobel laureate.

But there is one big difference between the prizes: You can be involved in this one.

Voting opened on the prize’s website this week with a 46-strong list of nominees, selected by Swedish librarians. Rather than the highbrow and sometimes obscure names usually touted for the Nobel, this list includes J.K. Rowling, alongside the singer Patti Smith, the British fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and the Nigerian-born novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.


Two of our very own— Chimamanda Adichie and Nnedi Okorafor have been nominated for an alternative Nobel Prize for Literature. No Nigerian has won the Nobel Prize for Literature since Wole Soyinka did in 1986.



VOTE NOW - - https://dennyaakademien.wishpondpages.com/den-nya-akademien/

Voting Closes on the 14th of August.

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Re: Vote Chimamanda & Nnedi For Nobel Alternative Prize For Literature by tossie101(f): 4:16pm On Jul 23, 2018
Beautiful ladies , hope any of o u wins

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