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2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
"in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction".
Date
  • 10 October 2024
    (announcement)
  • 10 December 2024
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
Currently held byto be announced
Website2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature is an international literary prize established according to Alfred Nobel's will[1] that will be announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 October 2024 and awarded on 10 December 2024.[2]

Nominations[edit]

Every year, beginning in November of last year, thousands of letters across the world are sent to the Swedish Academy, endorsing well celebrated and little-known authors for the Nobel Prize. Such nominations can only be done by qualified nominators, namely members of the Swedish Academy and of other academies, institutions and societies which are similar to it in construction and purpose; professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and colleges; previous Nobel Prize laureates in Literature; and chairpersons of writers' organizations qualifying as representative of their countries' production of literature and belles lettres.[3] Among the fundamental rules in making nominations include not making them public – but some still do as previous years – nor nominating oneself which automatically disqualifies the nominee during deliberations.[4][5]

Despite the secrecy, many notable writers around the globe are perennially expected to be among the official nominees and favored to win the prestigious literary prize. Among these living authors include Albania's Kadare; Algeria's Sansal; America's Davis, DeLillo, Erdrich, Franzen, Kincaid, King Nussbaum, Oates, Patchett, Palahniuk, Pynchon, Robinson, Tyler, White and Whitehead; Angola's Pepetela and Vieira; Argentina's Aira and Sarlo; Belgium's Hertmans, Nolens and Toussaint; Brazil's Buarque, Nassar, Adélia Prado and Trevisan; Bosnia and Herzegovina's Jergović; Britain's Barnes, Churchill, Cusk, De Bernières, Follett, Levy, McEwan, Rushdie, Swift, Stoppard and Tremain; Canada's Atwood, Carson, Ondaatje, and Taylor; Cape Verde's Almeida; Chile's Allende and Eltit; China's Bei Dao, Can Xue, Ha Jin, Wang Anyi, Yan Lianke and Yu Hua; Colombia's Ángel; Republic of Congo's Dongala and Mabanckou; Cuba's Gutiérrez, Morejón and Padura; Czech Republic's Hodrová and Wernisch; Egypt's Al Aswany and Ibrahim; El Salvador's H. C. Moya; Denmark's Tafdrup and Von Trier; Estonia's Kareva and Luik; France's Besson, Carrère, Chamoiseau, Cixous, Goffette, Houellebecq, Khoury-Ghata, Kristeva, Michon, NDiaye, Quignard and Vuillard; Finland's Oksanen and Tikka; Germany's Erpenbeck, Grünbein, Habermas, Jirgl, Kinsky, Schlink, Sloterdijk and Strauss; Ghana's Dawes; Greece's Sotiropoulos; Guatemala's Rey Rosa; Guinea's Monénembo; Haiti's Frankétienne and Laferrière; Hungary's Krasznahorkai and Nádas; Iceland's Elíasson and Sjón; India's Desai, Ghosh and Roy; Iran's Dowlatabadi and Parsipur; Israel's Grossman, Keret and Mishol; Italy's Agamben, Anedda, Ferrante, Magris, Maraini and Starnone; Ireland's Banville, Barry, Donoghue, Muldoon, O'Brien and Tóibín; Jamaica's Goodison, Miller, and Johnson; Japan's Itō, Kanai, Murakami, Ogawa, Yoko Tawada and Yoshimoto; Kenya's Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o; Korea's Han Kang, Hwang Sok-yong, Kim Hyesoon, Kim Young-ha, Ko Un, Lee Hae-in, Mun Jeonghui and Yi Munyeol; Lebanon's Khoury; Libya's Al-Koni; Lithuania's Venclova; Mauritius' Devi; Mexico's Aridjis, Poniatowska and Rivera Garza; Morocco's Jelloun and Laabi; Mozambique's Chiziane and Couto, Netherlands' Bakker and Nooteboom; Nigeria's Adichie and Okri; Norway's Knausgård, Lindstrøm and Solstad; Oceania's Carey, Grace, Ihimaera, Malouf, Murnane, Wendt and Wright; Palestine's Zaqtan; Philippines' Apostol and Ty-Casper; Poland's Krall, Lipska, Sapkowski and Tulli; Portugal's Lobo Antunes; Romania's Blandiana, Cărtărescu and Țepeneag; Rwanda's Mukasonga; Russia's Bykov, Petrushevskaya, Shishkin, Sorokin, Sedakova and Ulitskaya; Scotland's Robertson, Smith and Welsh; Senegal's Diop; Spain's Gamoneda, Goytisolo, Mendoza, Muñoz Molina, Sanz and Vila-Matas; Somalia's Farah; South Africa's Krog, Fugard, Breytenbach, and Vladislavic; Syria's Adunis and Barakat; Switzerland's Allemann, Jaeggy and Merz; Tunisia's Saïd; Turkey's Livaneli; Ukraine's Kostenko (nominated in 1967), Kurkov and Zhadan; Uruguay's Peri Rossi and Vitale; Uzbekistan's Ismailov; Venezuela's Cadenas; Vietnam's Bảo Ninh and Dương Thu Hương and Zimbabwe's Dangarembga. [6][7][8][9]

Nobel Committee[edit]

The 2024 Nobel Committee is composed of the following members:[10]

Committee Members
Seat No. Picture Name Elected Position Profession
4 Anders Olsson
(b. 1949) 		2008 committee chair literary critic, literary historian
11 Mats Malm
(b. 1964) 		2018 associate member
permanent secretary 		translator, literary historian, editor
12 Per Wästberg
(b. 1933) 		1997 member novelist, journalist, poet, essayist
13 Anne Swärd
(b. 1969) 		2019 member novelist
9 Ellen Mattson
(b. 1963) 		2019 member novelist, essayist
14 Steve Sem-Sandberg
(b. 1958) 		2021 member journalist, author, translator

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Alfred Nobel will". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Prize announcement dates". nobelprize.org.
  3. ^ "How are the Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature decided?". svenskaakademien.se. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Rules for Nominations". svenskaakademien.se. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Behind the scenes of the Nobel Prize in Literature". nobelprize.org. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Crowd-pleaser or obscure pick for literature Nobel?". France 24. 6 October 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  7. ^ Alex Marshall (6 October 2021). "Who Will Win the Nobel Prize in Literature?". New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  8. ^ "10 People Who Deserve a Nobel Prize". The Best Schools. 7 September 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  9. ^ Shrimansi Kaushik (3 October 2022). "Authors Who Should Win Nobel Prize For Literature". india.com. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  10. ^ The Nobel Committee 2024 – Nobel Prize in Literature svenskaakademien.se

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