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The '''New Academy Prize in Literature''' was established in 2018 in lieu of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], which was not awarded in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/books/alternative-nobel-prize-literature-new-academy-prize.html|title=An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You|work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Alex|last=Marshall|date=July 13, 2018|accessdate=September 18, 2018}}</ref> The winner was announced on 12 October 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-murakami-new-academy-20180917-story.html|title=Haruki Murakami takes his name out of the running for alternative literature Nobel|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Michael|last=Schaub|date=September 17, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref> The New Academy will be dissolved in December 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/02/alternative-nobel-literature-prize-planned-in-sweden|title=Alternative Nobel literature prize planned in Sweden|work=[[The Guardian]]|first=Alison|last=Flood|date=July 2, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref>
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The '''New Academy Prize in Literature''' was established in 2018 as an alternative to the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], which was not awarded in 2018 and instead postponed until 2019.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/books/alternative-nobel-prize-literature-new-academy-prize.html|title=An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You|work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Alex|last=Marshall|date=July 13, 2018|accessdate=September 18, 2018}}</ref> The winner was announced on 12 October 2018,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-murakami-new-academy-20180917-story.html|title=Haruki Murakami takes his name out of the running for alternative literature Nobel|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Michael|last=Schaub|date=September 17, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref> the prize being given to the Guadeloupean-French author [[Maryse Condé]], who was praised by the jury as a "grand storyteller [whose] authorship belongs to world literature, describing the ravages of [[colonialism]] and the postcolonial chaos in a language which is both precise and overwhelming."<ref name="A" />


The New Academy was formed as non-profit organization in 2018, not affiliated with either the [[Nobel Foundation]] or the [[Swedish Academy]], and was dissolved in December 2018, with its "alternative Nobel" remaining a one-off award.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/02/alternative-nobel-literature-prize-planned-in-sweden|title=Alternative Nobel literature prize planned in Sweden|work=[[The Guardian]]|first=Alison|last=Flood|date=July 2, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref><ref name="bookriot, 29 Aug 2018" >{{cite web | first = Erika H. |last=Kern | url = https://bookriot.com/2018/08/29/alternative-nobel-prize-in-literature-shortlist | title = The alternative Nobel Prize in Literature | date = August 29, 2018 | language = en | website = bookriot.com | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181230195852/https://bookriot.com/2018/08/29/alternative-nobel-prize-in-literature-shortlist/ | archive-date = December 30, 2018 | url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/gaiman-and-murakami-shortlisted-nobel-prize-substitute-854566|title=Gaiman and Murakami shortlisted for Nobel Prize substitute|first=Katherine|last=Cowdrey|magazine=[[The Bookseller]]|date=31 August 2018|access-date=4 April 2024}}</ref>
Following an open invitation to the world, calling for public votes for 47 candidates nominated by Swedish librarians, the New Academy announced that the four finalists for the prize were [[Maryse Condé]], [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Haruki Murakami]], and [[Kim Thúy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dennyaakademien.com/nominated|title=The finalists: The New Academy Prize in Literature 2018|website=Den Nya Akademien (The New Academy)|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref>


==Nominations==
On 17 September 2018 Murakami requested that his nomination be withdrawn, saying he wanted to "concentrate on writing, away from media attention."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/national/japans-haruki-murakami-withdraws-consideration-alternative-nobel-award/|title=Japan’s Haruki Murakami withdraws from consideration for alternative Nobel award|work=[[The Japan Times]]|date=September 16, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref>
Following an open invitation to the world, calling for public votes for 47 candidates nominated by Swedish librarians, the New Academy announced that the four finalists for the prize were [[Maryse Condé]], [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Haruki Murakami]], and [[Kim Thúy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dennyaakademien.com/nominated|title=The finalists: The New Academy Prize in Literature 2018|website=Den Nya Akademien (The New Academy)|access-date=September 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022190420/https://www.dennyaakademien.com/nominated|archive-date=October 22, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/30/neil-gaiman-haruki-murakami-alternative-nobel-literature-prize|title=Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami up for alternative Nobel literature prize|first=Alison|last=Flood|newspaper=The Guardian|date=30 August 2018}}</ref> There were 12 nominees each from Sweden and the United States, five from United Kingdom, three each from France and Canada, and two each from Italy and Nigeria.


On 17 September 2018, Murakami requested that his nomination be withdrawn, saying he wanted to "concentrate on writing, away from media attention."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/16/national/japans-haruki-murakami-withdraws-consideration-alternative-nobel-award/|title=Japan's Haruki Murakami withdraws from consideration for alternative Nobel award|work=[[The Japan Times]]|date=September 16, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref>
The New Academy Prize in Literature was awarded to [[Maryse Condé]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/books/maryse-conde-alternative-lobel-literature.html Maryse Condé Wins an Alternative to the Literature Nobel in a Scandal-Plagued Year], nytimes.com. Retrieved October 12, 2018.</ref>

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
|+ class="nowrap" | List of nominees for the New Academy Prize in Literature
|-
! scope=col | No.
! scope=col | Nominee
! scope=col | Country
! scope=col | Genre(s)
|-
|style="background:gold;white-space:nowrap" |1
|style="background:gold;white-space:nowrap" |[[Maryse Condé]] (1934-2024)
|style="background:gold;white-space:nowrap" |{{flag|France}}
|style="background:gold;white-space:nowrap" |novel, drama, essays
|-
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |2
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |[[Haruki Murakami]] (b. 1949)
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |{{flag|Japan}}
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |novel, short story, essays
|-
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |3
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |[[Neil Gaiman]] (b. 1960)
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |novel, short story, poetry, screenplay
|-
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |3
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |[[Kim Thúy]] (b. 1968)
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |{{flag|Vietnam}}<br>{{flag|Canada}}
|style="background:lightgrey;white-space:nowrap" |novel
|-
|5
|[[Margaret Atwood]] (b. 1939)
|{{flag|Canada}}
|novel, short story, poetry, essays, literary criticism
|-
|6
|[[Paul Auster]] (b. 1947)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel, short story, essays, memoirs, poetry, screenplay, translation
|-
|7
|[[Don DeLillo]] (b. 1936)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel, short story, drama, screenplay, essays
|-
|8
|[[Kerstin Ekman]] (b. 1933)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel
|-
|9
|[[Jamaica Kincaid]] (b. 1949)
|{{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|novel, essays, short story
|-
|10
|[[David Levithan]] (b. 1972)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel, short story, essays
|-
|11
|[[Cormac McCarthy]] (1933–2023)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel, drama, screenplay, short story
|-
|12
|[[Ian McEwan]] (b. 1948)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|novel, short story, screenplay, drama
|-
|13
|[[Joyce Carol Oates]] (b. 1938)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel, drama, poetry, short story, essays, literary criticism
|-
|14
|[[Nnedi Okorafor]] (b. 1974)
|{{flag|Nigeria}}<br>{{flag|United States}}
|novel, short story
|-
|15
|[[Sofi Oksanen]] (b. 1977)
|{{flag|Finland}}
|novel, drama, poetry, essays
|-
|16
|[[Thomas Pynchon]] (b. 1937)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel, short story, essays
|-
|17
|[[Meg Rosoff]] (b. 1956)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|novel
|-
|18
|[[J. K. Rowling]] (b. 1965)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|novel, screenplay
|-
|19
|[[Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]] (b. 1938)
|{{flag|Kenya}}
|novel, drama, short story, essays
|-
|20
|[[Jeanette Winterson]]
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|novel, short story, memoirs
|-
|21
|[[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]] (b. 1977)
|{{flag|Nigeria}}
|novel, short story, essays
|-
|22
|[[Johannes Anyuru]] (b. 1979)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel, poetry
|-
|23
|[[Silvia Avallone]] (b. 1984)
|{{flag|Italy}}
|novel, poetry
|-
|24
|[[Nina Bouraoui]] (b. 1967)
|{{flag|France}}
|novel, short story, songwriting
|-
|25
|[[Anne Carson]] (b. 1950)
|{{flag|Canada}}
|poetry, essays
|-
|26
|[[Inger Edelfeldt]] (b. 1956)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel, poetry
|-
|27
|[[Elena Ferrante]] (b. 1943)
|{{flag|Italy}}
|novel
|-
|28
|Jens Ganman (b. 1971)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel, essays, songwriting, screenplay
|-
|29
|[[Siri Hustvedt]] (b. 1955)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel, poetry, essays
|-
|30
|[[Jenny Jägerfeld]] (b. 1974)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel
|-
|31
|[[Jonas Hassen Khemiri]] (b. 1978)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel, short story, drama, essays
|-
|32
|[[Édouard Louis]] (b. 1992)
|{{flag|France}}
|novel, essays
|-
|33
|Sara Lövestam (b. 1980)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel, short story
|-
|34
|[[Ulf Lundell]] (b. 1949)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel, poetry, songwriting
|-
|35
|[[Amos Oz]] (1939–2018)
|{{flag|Israel}}
|novel, short story, essays
|-
|36
|Sara Paborn (b. 1972)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel
|-
|37
|[[Agneta Pleijel]] (b. 1940)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel, poetry, essays, literary criticism
|-
|38
|[[Marilynne Robinson]] (b. 1943)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel, essays
|-
|39
|[[Arundhati Roy]] (b. 1961)
|{{flag|India}}
|novel, essays
|-
|40
|Jessica Schiefauer (b. 1978)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel
|-
|41
|[[Jón Kalman Stefánsson]] (b. 1963)
|{{flag|Iceland}}
|novel, poetry
|-
|42
|[[Patti Smith]] (b. 1946)
|{{flag|United States}}
|poetry, songwriting
|-
|43
|[[Zadie Smith]] (b. 1975)
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|novel, short story, drama, essays
|-
|44
|[[Peter Stamm]] (b. 1963)
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
|novel, essays, drama, translation
|-
|45
|[[Sara Stridsberg]] (b. 1972)
|{{flag|Sweden}}
|novel, drama, essays
|-
|46
|[[Donna Tartt]] (b. 1963)
|{{flag|United States}}
|novel
|-
|47
|[[Olga Tokarczuk]] (b. 1962)
|{{flag|Poland}}
|novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay
|}

==The winner==
The New Academy Prize in Literature was awarded to [[Maryse Condé]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/books/maryse-conde-alternative-lobel-literature.html|title=Maryse Condé Wins an Alternative to the Literature Nobel in a Scandal-Plagued Year|website= nytimes.com|first= Annalisa |last=Quinn|date= October 12, 2018|access-date=October 12, 2018}}</ref> The jury said in its citation: {{block quote|"Maryse Condé is a grand storyteller. Her authorship belongs to world literature. In her work, she describes the ravages of colonialism and the postcolonial chaos in a language which is both precise and overwhelming. The magic the dream and the terror is as also love constantly present. Fiction and reality overlap each other and people live as much in an imagined world with long and complicated traditions as the ongoing present. Respectfully and with humour she narrates the postcolonial insanity disruption and abuse but also human solidarity and warmth The dead live in her stories closely to the living in a multitudinous world where gender race and class are constantly turned over in new constellations."<ref name="A">{{cite web|url=https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/the-new-academy/pressreleases/maryse-conde-accepted-the-new-academy-prize-in-literature-of-sek-320-000-in-stockholm-2811878 |title=Maryse Condé accepted The New Academy Prize in Literature of SEK 320 000 in Stockholm |publisher=The New Academy |date=December 9, 2018 |access-date= July 6, 2022 }}</ref>}}

Maryse Condé received the prize on 10 December 2018 at a ceremony at [[Berns salonger]] in [[Stockholm]]. The prize sum, 320&nbsp;000 Swedish crowns, was created through [[crowdfunding]] and [[sponsorship]].<ref name="A" />

Condé, a writer from [[Guadeloupe]], was particularly noted for her novels ''[[Segu (novel)|Segu]]'' (1984), ''[[Tree of Life (novel)|Tree of Life: A Novel of the Caribbean]]'' (1987) and ''[[Windward Heights]]'' (1995).<ref name="A" /> When Condé died in 2024, ''[[The Guardian]]'' obituary of her noted that she had considered this award an especially important achievement and that she had dedicated the prize to all the people of Guadeloupe, saying: "We are such a small country, only mentioned when there are hurricanes or earthquakes and things like that. Now we are so happy to be recognised for something else."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/02/maryse-conde-guadelopean-grand-storyteller-dies-aged-90|title=Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean 'grand storyteller' dies aged 90|first=Sian|last=Cain|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date= April 2, 2024}}</ref>

==Reactions==
The establishment of the prize caused several negative reactions in Swedish media, some criticizing the New Academy's intention to award "morally good literature" and cultural journalist [[Göran Sommardal]] called the prize "pathetic".<ref name="B">{{cite web|url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/kritik-mot-nya-akademiens-nobelpris |title=Kritik mot Nya Akademiens litteraturpris |date= July 16, 2018 |publisher=SVT Nyheter |lang=Swedish |access-date= July 6, 2022}}</ref> Swedish author [[Ulf Lundell]], himself one of the 47 nominees for the prize, said he thought that "no author of any self-preservation will accept it".<ref name="B" /> Internationally, reactions were more positive, [[Alison Flood]] wrote in ''The Guardian'': "Perhaps the most striking detail of all is found not in the names, but the fine print. The New Academy is enforcing a gender quota on the shortlist stage, stipulating that it comprises two men and two women. How different this is to the Nobel, which counts among its 114 winners just 14 women", and also praised the nomination process of public votes: "How open. How inclusive."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/jul/12/the-alternative-nobel-vote-now-for-a-surprising-new-literature-prize |title=The Alternative Nobel: vote opens for a surprising new literature prize |author=Flood, Alison |date= July 12, 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=July 6, 2022}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.dennyaakademien.com/ The New Academy]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20181014212741/https://www.dennyaakademien.com/ The New Academy]


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The New Academy Prize in Literature
Maryse Condé – "grand storyteller [whose] authorship belongs to world literature..."
Date12 October 2018; 6 years ago (2018-10-12)
LocationStockholm
CountrySweden
Presented bySwedish Library Association
Hosted byAlexandra Pascalidou, Bianca Kronlöf, and Lo Kauppi
Reward(s)SEK 320 000
2018 laureateMaryse Condé

The New Academy Prize in Literature was established in 2018 as an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was not awarded in 2018 and instead postponed until 2019.[1] The winner was announced on 12 October 2018,[2] the prize being given to the Guadeloupean-French author Maryse Condé, who was praised by the jury as a "grand storyteller [whose] authorship belongs to world literature, describing the ravages of colonialism and the postcolonial chaos in a language which is both precise and overwhelming."[3]

The New Academy was formed as non-profit organization in 2018, not affiliated with either the Nobel Foundation or the Swedish Academy, and was dissolved in December 2018, with its "alternative Nobel" remaining a one-off award.[4][5][6]

Nominations

[edit]

Following an open invitation to the world, calling for public votes for 47 candidates nominated by Swedish librarians, the New Academy announced that the four finalists for the prize were Maryse Condé, Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami, and Kim Thúy.[7][8] There were 12 nominees each from Sweden and the United States, five from United Kingdom, three each from France and Canada, and two each from Italy and Nigeria.

On 17 September 2018, Murakami requested that his nomination be withdrawn, saying he wanted to "concentrate on writing, away from media attention."[9]

List of nominees for the New Academy Prize in Literature
No. Nominee Country Genre(s)
1 Maryse Condé (1934-2024)  France novel, drama, essays
2 Haruki Murakami (b. 1949)  Japan novel, short story, essays
3 Neil Gaiman (b. 1960)  United Kingdom novel, short story, poetry, screenplay
3 Kim Thúy (b. 1968)  Vietnam
 Canada 		novel
5 Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)  Canada novel, short story, poetry, essays, literary criticism
6 Paul Auster (b. 1947)  United States novel, short story, essays, memoirs, poetry, screenplay, translation
7 Don DeLillo (b. 1936)  United States novel, short story, drama, screenplay, essays
8 Kerstin Ekman (b. 1933)  Sweden novel
9 Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)  Antigua and Barbuda
 United States 		novel, essays, short story
10 David Levithan (b. 1972)  United States novel, short story, essays
11 Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023)  United States novel, drama, screenplay, short story
12 Ian McEwan (b. 1948)  United Kingdom novel, short story, screenplay, drama
13 Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)  United States novel, drama, poetry, short story, essays, literary criticism
14 Nnedi Okorafor (b. 1974)  Nigeria
 United States 		novel, short story
15 Sofi Oksanen (b. 1977)  Finland novel, drama, poetry, essays
16 Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)  United States novel, short story, essays
17 Meg Rosoff (b. 1956)  United Kingdom novel
18 J. K. Rowling (b. 1965)  United Kingdom novel, screenplay
19 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (b. 1938)  Kenya novel, drama, short story, essays
20 Jeanette Winterson  United Kingdom novel, short story, memoirs
21 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977)  Nigeria novel, short story, essays
22 Johannes Anyuru (b. 1979)  Sweden novel, poetry
23 Silvia Avallone (b. 1984)  Italy novel, poetry
24 Nina Bouraoui (b. 1967)  France novel, short story, songwriting
25 Anne Carson (b. 1950)  Canada poetry, essays
26 Inger Edelfeldt (b. 1956)  Sweden novel, poetry
27 Elena Ferrante (b. 1943)  Italy novel
28 Jens Ganman (b. 1971)  Sweden novel, essays, songwriting, screenplay
29 Siri Hustvedt (b. 1955)  United States novel, poetry, essays
30 Jenny Jägerfeld (b. 1974)  Sweden novel
31 Jonas Hassen Khemiri (b. 1978)  Sweden novel, short story, drama, essays
32 Édouard Louis (b. 1992)  France novel, essays
33 Sara Lövestam (b. 1980)  Sweden novel, short story
34 Ulf Lundell (b. 1949)  Sweden novel, poetry, songwriting
35 Amos Oz (1939–2018)  Israel novel, short story, essays
36 Sara Paborn (b. 1972)  Sweden novel
37 Agneta Pleijel (b. 1940)  Sweden novel, poetry, essays, literary criticism
38 Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943)  United States novel, essays
39 Arundhati Roy (b. 1961)  India novel, essays
40 Jessica Schiefauer (b. 1978)  Sweden novel
41 Jón Kalman Stefánsson (b. 1963)  Iceland novel, poetry
42 Patti Smith (b. 1946)  United States poetry, songwriting
43 Zadie Smith (b. 1975)  United Kingdom novel, short story, drama, essays
44 Peter Stamm (b. 1963)   Switzerland novel, essays, drama, translation
45 Sara Stridsberg (b. 1972)  Sweden novel, drama, essays
46 Donna Tartt (b. 1963)  United States novel
47 Olga Tokarczuk (b. 1962)  Poland novel, short story, poetry, essay, screenplay

The winner

[edit]

The New Academy Prize in Literature was awarded to Maryse Condé.[10] The jury said in its citation:

"Maryse Condé is a grand storyteller. Her authorship belongs to world literature. In her work, she describes the ravages of colonialism and the postcolonial chaos in a language which is both precise and overwhelming. The magic the dream and the terror is as also love constantly present. Fiction and reality overlap each other and people live as much in an imagined world with long and complicated traditions as the ongoing present. Respectfully and with humour she narrates the postcolonial insanity disruption and abuse but also human solidarity and warmth The dead live in her stories closely to the living in a multitudinous world where gender race and class are constantly turned over in new constellations."[3]

Maryse Condé received the prize on 10 December 2018 at a ceremony at Berns salonger in Stockholm. The prize sum, 320 000 Swedish crowns, was created through crowdfunding and sponsorship.[3]

Condé, a writer from Guadeloupe, was particularly noted for her novels Segu (1984), Tree of Life: A Novel of the Caribbean (1987) and Windward Heights (1995).[3] When Condé died in 2024, The Guardian obituary of her noted that she had considered this award an especially important achievement and that she had dedicated the prize to all the people of Guadeloupe, saying: "We are such a small country, only mentioned when there are hurricanes or earthquakes and things like that. Now we are so happy to be recognised for something else."[11]

Reactions

[edit]

The establishment of the prize caused several negative reactions in Swedish media, some criticizing the New Academy's intention to award "morally good literature" and cultural journalist Göran Sommardal called the prize "pathetic".[12] Swedish author Ulf Lundell, himself one of the 47 nominees for the prize, said he thought that "no author of any self-preservation will accept it".[12] Internationally, reactions were more positive, Alison Flood wrote in The Guardian: "Perhaps the most striking detail of all is found not in the names, but the fine print. The New Academy is enforcing a gender quota on the shortlist stage, stipulating that it comprises two men and two women. How different this is to the Nobel, which counts among its 114 winners just 14 women", and also praised the nomination process of public votes: "How open. How inclusive."[13]

References

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  1. ^ Marshall, Alex (July 13, 2018). "An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You". The New York Times. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  2. ^ Schaub, Michael (September 17, 2018). "Haruki Murakami takes his name out of the running for alternative literature Nobel". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d "Maryse Condé accepted The New Academy Prize in Literature of SEK 320 000 in Stockholm". The New Academy. December 9, 2018. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  4. ^ Flood, Alison (July 2, 2018). "Alternative Nobel literature prize planned in Sweden". The Guardian. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  5. ^ Kern, Erika H. (August 29, 2018). "The alternative Nobel Prize in Literature". bookriot.com. Archived from the original on December 30, 2018.
  6. ^ Cowdrey, Katherine (31 August 2018). "Gaiman and Murakami shortlisted for Nobel Prize substitute". The Bookseller. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  7. ^ "The finalists: The New Academy Prize in Literature 2018". Den Nya Akademien (The New Academy). Archived from the original on October 22, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  8. ^ Flood, Alison (30 August 2018). "Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami up for alternative Nobel literature prize". The Guardian.
  9. ^ "Japan's Haruki Murakami withdraws from consideration for alternative Nobel award". The Japan Times. September 16, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
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