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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius announces that Bob Dylan is awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature during a presser at the Old Stockholm Stock Exchange Building in Stockholm, Sweden. Sara Danius, the first female head of the prestigious Swedish body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. She was 57. Her family told Swedish news agency TT that Danius passed away early Saturday following a long illness. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT via AP, File )

First female head of Nobel’s literature award body has died

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FILE - In this file photo dated May 22, 2018, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk after winning the Man Booker International prize 2018, for her book Flights. Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk was named Thursday Oct. 10, 2019, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for literature. (Matt Crossick/PA FILE via AP)

Nobel literature pick heartens liberal Poles in populist era

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In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, file photo, a bust of the Nobel Prize founder, Alfred Nobel on display at the Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm. (Henrik Montgomery/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The Latest: Group want Handke award revoked

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Swedish Academy to announce 2 Nobel literature prizes in Oct

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FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 file photo, Jean-Claude Arnault, center, is escorted from court after the first day of his appeal trial, in Stockholm. The man with ties to the Swedish Academy that awards the literature Nobel Prize has lost his appeal to have his rape conviction and a two-year prison sentence reversed and been convicted of a second rape. The Svea Court of Appeal on Monday Dec. 3, 2018, gave Jean-Claude Arnault 2.5 years in jail for raping the same woman twice seven years ago. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Man at center of Nobel Literature scandal loses rape appeal

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FILE- In this file photo from April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. The scandal-rocked Swedish Academy said on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, that only half of those who choose the winners of next year's Nobel Literature prize will be members of the body. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Outsiders, academy members to pick Nobel Literature winners

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Another member quits body that awards Nobel literature prize

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In this Sept. 19, 2018, file photo, Jean-Claude Arnault arrives at the district court for the start of court proceedings in Stockholm. Arnault, a French citizen who is a major cultural figure in Sweden, is at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that has tarnished the academy and forced it to take a year off in choosing who should get the prestigious literature prize. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Group tied to literature prize still under Nobel glare

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Frenchman Jean-Claude Arnault at the district court in Stockholm on Monday Sept. 24, 2018, for hearings in his trial for alleged rape and sexual assault. Arnault, a major cultural figure in Sweden and the husband of Swedish Academy member Katarina Frostenson, is on trial accused for two counts of rape of a woman in 2011. (Janerik Henriksson / TT via AP)

Man at center of Nobel sex scandal remanded pending verdict

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Rape trial starts of man at center of Nobel scandal

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Ex members of Nobel literature body ‘no plans on returning’

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3 members of Nobel literature prize body to return

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The old Stock Exchange Building, home of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday May 3, 2018. For the first time since 1943, there's a notable risk that no Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded this year. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT via AP)

Nobel literature prize will not be awarded this year

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Text of the Swedish Academy statement on postponing award

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Academy director and acting permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Anders Olsson, speaks during an interview with TT News Agency, in Stockholm, Friday, May 4, 2018. The Swedish Academy says the Nobel Prize in literature will be not awarded this year following sex-abuse allegations and other issues within its ranks that have tarnished the body's reputation. (Janerik Henriksson/TT News Agency via AP)

5 things to know about the Nobel Prize for literature

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Will there be a Nobel in literature this year? Stay tuned

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7th member of Nobel Literature awarding body stepping down

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Postponement talk raised for Nobel Literature Prize

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Women wear high-necked blouses with a loosely tied bow at the neck as people gathered on Stortorget square outside the headquarters of the Swedish Academy, to demand all of its remaining members resign, in Stockholm, Thursday April 19, 2018. Thousands of protesters called Thursday for the resignation of the secretive board that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature after a sex-abuse scandal linked to the prestigious Swedish academy forced the ouster of its first-ever woman head and tarnished the reputation of the coveted prize. (Jonas Ekstromer / TT via AP)

Nobel body: ‘unacceptable behavior’ not widely known

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FILE - In this Monday, April 3, 2017 file photo, King Carl Gustaf of Sweden speaks during a meeting with Brazilian and Swedish businessmen, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sweden's king on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 the resignation of three members from the Swedish Academy awarding the Nobel Literature Prize is &quot;deeply unfortunate and risk seriously damaging&quot; the body's &quot;important activities.&quot; (AP Photo/Andre Penner, file)

Women take fall in Nobel scandal for man’s alleged misdeeds

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