In the wake of the news that this year's Nobel Prize in Literature has been postponed as a sex scandal engulfs the Swedish Academy, the cultural institution responsible for awarding the prestigious award, multiple women have accused author Junot Díaz of forcible kissing and verbal harassment.

"As a grad student, I invited Junot Díaz to speak to a workshop on issues of representation in literature. I was an unknown wide-eyed 26 yo, and he used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me," writer Zinzi Clemmons tweeted early Friday morning.

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"I'm far away from the only one he's done this 2," she continued. "I refused to be silent anymore."

Clemmons unleashed a reckoning when she shared her allegations of sexual misconduct against Díaz. Shortly after she detailed her alleged experience, author Carmen Maria Machado accused the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of verbal harassment.

"During his tour for THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, Junot Díaz did a Q&A at the grad program I'd just graduated from. When I made the mistake of asking him a question about his protagonist's unhealthy, pathological relationship with women, he went off on me for twenty minutes," Machado claimed on Twitter.

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