Overview

• The Swedish Academy will reveal the laureate no earlier than 13:00 local time in Stockholm’s Old Town, with the announcement streamed live.
• Slightly more than 200 candidates were nominated by literature institutes, writers’ associations, professors and former laureates, and the records remain sealed for five decades.
• Bookmakers and critics cite contenders including Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, László Krasznahorkai, Gerald Murnane, Can Xue, Mircea Cărtărescu and Cristina Rivera Garza, though no clear favorite has emerged.
• Some observers note a recent alternation between male and female laureates and, after 2024 winner Han Kang, suggest a man could be likely, while stressing such patterns are speculative.
• The award is worth 11 million Swedish kronor, with the formal ceremony set for 10 December at the Stockholm Concert Hall.