The winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced at 13:00 Stockholm time, and you can watch the webcast of the announcement live.
I will update this post shortly after the announcement and then throughout the day with news and information about the winner.
Meanwhile, some last-minute information, links, and coverage from yesterday.
- As of less than ten hours before the announcement there had been very little movement on the betting-boards, and the odds of the frontrunners remained more or less unchanged. But check in at Ladbrokes and Unibet for last minute surges and swoons.
- Aftonbladet asked its critics to answer three questions: Who do you think won the prize ? Who do you want to get the prize ? and Who don't you want to get the prize ? in Nobelpriset: Bara det inte blir Dylan.
Yes, 'not Dylan' was a popular refrain/answer -- as was, somewhat more surprisingly: not Adonis. But at least they throw a few more names into the mix, some of whom are definitely worthy.
- Publishers Weekly has a crib-sheet of sorts for the top betting favorites, Get to Know Your Nobel Favorites -- a perhaps useful summary-overview.
- There were several pieces focusing on the betting and the odds-makers:
Meanwhile, some last-minute information, links, and coverage from yesterday.
- As of less than ten hours before the announcement there had been very little movement on the betting-boards, and the odds of the frontrunners remained more or less unchanged. But check in at Ladbrokes and Unibet for last minute surges and swoons.
- Aftonbladet asked its critics to answer three questions: Who do you think won the prize ? Who do you want to get the prize ? and Who don't you want to get the prize ? in Nobelpriset: Bara det inte blir Dylan.
Yes, 'not Dylan' was a popular refrain/answer -- as was, somewhat more surprisingly: not Adonis. But at least they throw a few more names into the mix, some of whom are definitely worthy.
- Publishers Weekly has a crib-sheet of sorts for the top betting favorites, Get to Know Your Nobel Favorites -- a perhaps useful summary-overview.
- There were several pieces focusing on the betting and the odds-makers:
- Don't Bother Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature advises Daniel D'Addario in Time (kind of missing the point that, while the actual odds-on favorite rarely takes the prize, the winner usually had pretty good odds too)
- Vauhini Vara has a look at The Evolution of Nobel Prize betting at The New Yorker
- Jonathon Sturgeon has an interesting Q&A at Flavorwire, "No Comment": Getting to Know the Shadowy Oddsmaker for the Nobel Prize in Literature, in which he discusses Ladbrokes' oddsmaking with the Magnus Puke-successor Vara mentions