“A member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize for Literature, has resigned in protest at the choice of last year’s winner. Knut Ahnlund said he was stepping down because the 2004 award went to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek. The Academy member called Jelinek’s work ‘a mass of text shovelled together without artistic structure’. His attack on Jelinek’s books and plays came days before the announcement of the 2005 winner, due on Thursday.”