STOCKHOLM — STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, and the winner will join an illustrious list of honorees that includes Ernest HemingwayToni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded 117 times by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy, to a total of 121 laureates. South Korean writer won last year's prize Han Kang for her work, which the committee said “confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life.”
The literary prize will be the fourth announced this week, following the 2025 Nobel Prize. medicine, physics And chemistry.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced on Friday. US President Donald Trump is considered unlikely, despite the fact that he recently told UN delegates: “Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.”
The latest Nobel laureate, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will be announced on Monday.
The Nobel Prize ceremony is held on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896. Nobel was a wealthy Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite. who founded the awards.
Each prize is worth SEK 11 million (about US$1.2 million), and the winners also receive an 18-karat gold medal and a diploma.
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Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.
