The Nobel Prize in Literature will be not awarded this year following sex-abuse.

The Swedish Academy, which organizes the Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Friday that it will not award the 2018 honor due to sex abuse allegations that have raised turmoil among the academy members and cast critical light upon the prestigious annual award. "The present decision was arrived at in view of the currently diminished academy and the reduced public confidence in the Academy," the academy's press release read. The group's permanent secretary, Anders Olsson, said: "We find it necessary to commit time to recovering public confidence in the academy before the next laureate can be announced." He added that the cultural institution also made the decision to delay the 2018 award "out of respect for previous and future literature laureates, the Nobel Foundation and the general public." The academy said it intended to bestow the 2018 literature award in 2019. None of this impacts the awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prizes in other prize categories.