STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in literature is being introduced on Thursday, with the winner becoming a member of an illustrious checklist of laureates that features Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro.
The literature prize has been awarded by the Nobel committee of the Swedish Academy 117 instances to a complete of 121 winners. Final yr’s prize was gained by South Korean writer Han Kang for her physique of labor that the committee stated “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
The literature prize is the fourth to be introduced this week, following the 2025 Nobels in drugs, physics and chemistry.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize might be introduced on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump is taken into account an extended shot regardless of lately telling United Nations delegates “everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.”
The ultimate Nobel, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Financial Sciences, is to be introduced on Monday.
Nobel Prize award ceremonies are held on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s dying in 1896. Nobel was a rich Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite who based the prizes.
Every prize carries an award of 11 million Swedish kronor (practically $1.2 million), and the winners additionally obtain an 18-carat gold medal and a diploma.
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Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.