(CNN) A French photographer at the center of a scandal that led to the unprecedented postponement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature has been sentenced to two years in prison for rape.

A Swedish court on Monday found Jean-Claude Arnault, 72, guilty in a case that dates back to 2011.

Arnault, who has close links to the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize, was cleared on a second charge of rape. He had denied both allegations.

Stockholm District Court said in a statement that Arnault's victim had been awarded compensation.

Jean-Claude Arnault, seen here at the Nobel dinner at the Royal Palace in Stockholm in December 2011, was found guilty of rape.

Arnault, the husband of Katarina Frostenson, who was an academy member until she stepped down in the wake of the scandal, had been facing multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment, first reported in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter late last year.

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