STOCKHOLM — A Swedish court on Monday found Jean-Claude Arnault, the man at the center of a scandal that led to the cancellation of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, guilty of raping a woman in 2011.

The court sentenced Mr. Arnault to two years in prison, the minimum term for rape.

Mr. Arnault’s lawyer, Bjorn Hurtig, told Swedish news media that his client would appeal the verdict. He had previously denied the allegations against Mr. Arnault, describing them as a “witch hunt.”

The charges against Mr. Arnault, 72, stemmed from a scandal that severely damaged the reputation of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, and set off a series of recriminations and power struggles there.

Mr. Arnault, a French photographer, was long seen in Sweden as someone who could make or break a career in the arts. He and his wife, a member of the Swedish Academy, owned the Forum, a popular cultural venue that received support from the academy.