What is New Academy Prize in Literature?
[[File:Maryse Condé.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Maryse Condé]] was the winner of the prize]] The '''New Academy Prize in Literature''' was created in 2018 because the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] was not awarded in 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/books/alternative-nobel-prize-literature-new-academy-prize.html|title=An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You|work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Alex|last=Marshall|date=July 13, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref> The winner was announced on 12 October 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-murakami-new-academy-20180917-story.html|title=Haruki Murakami takes his name out of the running for alternative literature Nobel|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Michael|last=Schaub|date=September 17, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref> The New Academy will be dissolved in December 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/02/alternative-nobel-literature-prize-planned-in-sweden|title=Alternative Nobel literature prize planned in Sweden|work=[[The Guardian]]|first=Alison|last=Flood|date=July 2, 2018|access-date=September 18, 2018}}</ref> The New Academy announced that the four finalists for the prize were [[Maryse Condé]], [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Haruki Murakami]], and [[Kim Thúy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dennyaakademien.com/nominated|title=The finalists: The New Academy Prize in Literature 2018|website=Den Nya Akademien (The New Academy)|access-date=September 18, 2018|archive-date=October 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022190420/https://www.dennyaakademien.com/nominated|url-status=dead}}</ref> The New Academy Prize in Literature was awarded to [[Maryse Condé]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/books/maryse-conde-alternative-lobel-literature.html Maryse Condé Wins an Alternative to the Literature Nobel in a Scandal-Plagued Year], nytimes.com. Retrieved October 12, 2018.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[https://w