Jean-Claude Arnault, man at centre of Nobel scandal, jailed for rape

Stockholm court sentences husband of Swedish Academy member to two years in prison

The man at the centre of a sexual abuse and financial misconduct scandal that forced the postponement of this year’s Nobel prize for literature has been convicted of rape.

In a unanimous verdict, Stockholm district court sentenced Jean-Claude Arnault – the husband of a member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the world’s most prestigious literary prize – to two years in prison, the minimum sentence.

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