'I trembled with shock': my brush with the rapist at the heart of the Nobel scandal

12:00am PST - January 12th, 2019    what men want - The Guardian (AU)

The trial shocked Sweden and meant there was no Nobel prize for literature in 2018. But long before Jean-Claude Arnault was jailed for rape, I met him I was in my early 20s. I thought of myself as a poet, well aware of the rule that you couldn’t call yourself…