- The New Academy Prize in Literature has been created in reaction to this year’s absent Nobel Prize for Literature, hit by a #MeToo-related scandal.
- The global literary award was given to Guadeloupe based author Maryse Conde for her work on post-colonialism.
- The New Academy is a provisional self-organized group of over 100 volunteers that emerged to provide an alternative global literature prize this year, after the Swedish Academy decided it would postpone its 2018 award.
- The Swedish Academy, responsible for selecting the laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, meanwhile would announce two Nobel Literature Prize laureates next year — one for 2018 and another for 2019.
