Original sentence: Knut Ahnlund (who had not played an active role in the academy since 1996) resigned saying that picking Jelinek had caused "irreparable damage" to the award's reputation
Edited sentence: Knut Ahnlund (who had not played an active role in the academy since 1996) resigned saying that picking Jelinek - whose works often reached the border between literature and porn, and sometimes crossing the line - had caused "irreparable damage" to the award's reputation