Two Nobel Prizes in Literature will be awarded this year, the Nobel Foundation announced in a statement on Tuesday.

The literature prize, usually annual, was not awarded last year because the body that chooses the winner, the Swedish Academy, was hit by a scandal involving sexual abuse, accusations of financial wrongdoing and hints of a cover-up.

At the center of the scandal were the poet Katarina Frostenson, a member of the academy, and her husband, Jean-Claude Arnault, who together ran a cultural organization in Stockholm that received sizable payments from the academy. Mr. Arnault was accused of abusing the influence the organization gave him, and of groping, harassing and assaulting at least 18 women.

Mr. Arnault, who was convicted of rape last year and sentenced to at least two years in prison, was also accused of leaking the names of award winners.