Experts anticipate that a Western male author will likely win this year’s Nobel literature prize, which will be announced on Thursday. Last year, South Korea’s Han Kang became the first Asian woman to receive the prize.
Since the prize has never been given to a woman twice in a row and women make up only 18 out of 121 laureates since it was first given out in 1901, it would be historic if it were given to another woman this year.
However, literary experts in Stockholm told AFP that they anticipate a Westerner to win this year, listing Swiss postmodernist Christian Kracht, Australia’s Gerald Murnane, Romania’s Mircea Cartarescu, Hungary’s Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Peter Nadas, and others as potential candidates.
