Swedish court finds man at center of Nobel Academy scandal guilty of rape

The charges against Jean-Claude Arnault prompted some members of the Swedish Academy to quit and forced it to cancel this year's prize, which would have been announced this month. It is the biggest crisis to hit the Academy since a Swedish king founded it more than 200 years ago. Arnault, 72 and married to a member of the Academy, pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape in a district court in Stockholm.

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