After Nobel prize falls to #MeToo, what's next for literature's highest honor?

Have you ever heard of Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson?

You are forgiven. They were the now-forgotten winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 when the Swedish Academy that selects the laureates decided to honor two of its own members. They were found more deserving than Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, and Graham Greene, none of whom ever won the prize.

That sparked a scandal. But there is no risk that the Academy will make such a crass misjudgment this year. Another scandal