Swedish scholar Sara Danius, who quit as head of the academy that awards the Nobel literature prize after a sex scandal unveiled by the Metoo movement, has died. The Swedish Academy said on Saturday that Danius, who revealed in 2014 that she was suffering breast cancer, died at the age of 57.
Danius - the first woman to head the academy as its permanent secretary - stepped down from the post in April 2018 and then quit the body in February of this year. Danius, a scholar at Stockholm University, joined the academy in 2013 and became its permanent secretary two years later. As such she was the voice of the body that awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Belarussian journalist Svetlana Alexievitch, US songwriter Bob Dylan and British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2019
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