Who will win - or win - the Nobel Prize for Literature?
At 14:00 the award committee will announce who will become the 122nd winner of the prestigious award.
Among the bookies, the leading candidates for the award are Salman Rushdie, Ann Carson, Annie Arnaud and Margaret Atwood.
The writers Michel Welbeck and Haruki Murakami are also on the list.
The award committee includes 18 people - writers, language and literature researchers, historians and a senior lawyer.
The winner will receive a prize of £1 million.
Abdulrazak Gurna, last year's winner, photo: IPA
Last year, the prize was awarded to Abdulrazak Gorna, a writer born in Tanzania who lives in the UK, thanks to his "uncompromising and compassionate engagement with the effects of colonialism on the fate of refugees at the meeting between cultures and continents".
His win came against the backdrop of criticism that the prize is too focused on European and North American creators: Gorna was only the sixth Nobel laureate born in Africa.
In 2020, the prize was awarded to the poet Louise Gluck, and in 2019 to the Austrian writer and poet Peter Hendke - a decision that caused a scandal because of Hendke's accusations of whitewashing Serbia's war crimes.
In 2018, the prize was not awarded at all following the sexual harassment scandal at the Swedish Academy, which even led to the retirement of some of its members.
Nobel medal and diploma.
A prize of one million pounds, photo: AP
The day after tomorrow (Saturday) the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded.
According to betting agencies, this year's leading candidates are Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Kyiv Independent newspaper, the exiled president of Belarus Svetlana Tikhnovskaya, the Ukrainian people and imprisoned Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny.
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