Announcement of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

This year's awardee for the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced Thursday, October 13, live from Stockholm, Sweden.

The prize is one of the 5 prize areas Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will and has been awarded to 112 laureates since 1901. The Swedish Academy is in charge of the literature prize.

Stockholm's literary circles are abuzz with a plethora of names of possible laureates for the literature prize, some more likely than others.

The Swedish Academy, which awards that prize, could tap superstar novelists such as Philip Roth of the US or Haruki Murakami of Japan, or some lesser-known writers such as Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse or Syrian poet Adonis.

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