Overview

• The 2025 laureate will be announced in Stockholm on Thursday, October 9, with the reveal scheduled for noon BST.
• Ladbrokes lists Chinese author Can Xue and Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai as joint favorites, with Haruki Murakami next in the betting.
• Aggregated odds from Nicerodds put Indian author Amitav Ghosh at the top, which, if borne out, would make him only the second Indian laureate after Rabindranath Tagore.
• Jurors Ellen Mattsson, Anne Swärd, Steve Sem-Sandberg, Anna-Karin Palm and secretary Mats Malm voted in this cycle, following readings from June to August and September deliberations, with notes sealed for 50 years.
• The prize carries 11 million Swedish kronor, and bookmakers also rate Cristina Rivera Garza, Enrique Vila-Matas, Gerald Murnane, Mircea Cărtărescu and Thomas Pynchon among leading contenders.