Does anyone maybe
@Marba ? has access to this paywalled article? It's a recent interview in which Olsson seems to call the members who left during the crisis cowards... interested to know if he says some other important things about how the prize has progressed over these years and how it's being handled right now...
I en nederländsk tidning talar han ut om krisen som skakade institutionen och ifrågasätter varför andra ledamöter väntade med sina vittnesmål.
www.dn.se
I had access to it at the office!
Yes, Anders Olsson thinks that SA members like Klas Östergren and Peter Englund who had people close to them who had been affected by Katarina Frostenson's husband's improper conduct should have told the SA earlier so that they could have handled it in a better way instead of them leaving the SA when the allegations reached media. Olsson also says things should have been communicated in a better way by Sara Danius as KF's husband had not commited sexual crimes within the SA, which was how it was understood by the world.
Olsson also calls the postponement of the 2018 Nobel Prize "completely irrational" and says that the SA has recovered surprisingly fast and that it would have taken much longer time if there had been problems of sexual harrasment or rape within the organisation. He says the 2018 postponement made it worse as it was an indirect admittance of the problems, but the pressure was too big from the Nobel Foundation and the leaving members so nothing else could be done.
The SA has taken a common decision not to talk about the crisis period and the Dutch interview Olsson did was an exception. The mood in the SA is now calmer but some things are still tense. Olsson says he will write in the future about his memories from this period for the SA's archive and thinks others will as well, and that it then will be up to the SA to decide what it wants to do with these texts and if they should be made public.
Peter Englund and Klas Östergren declined to comment on the article.
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