The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced Thursday, adding a new name to a distinguished list of past winners that includes literary giants Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and Kazuo Ishiguro. The recipient will join a tradition that has honored authors from around the world for more than a century.
The Swedish Academy’s Nobel committee has awarded the literature prize 117 times to 121 laureates since its inception. Last year’s award went to South Korean author Han Kang, honored for a body of work that the committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
This year’s literature prize is the fourth Nobel to be revealed in 2025, following announcements in medicine, physics and chemistry earlier in the week. The Nobel Peace Prize winner will be named Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump is considered a long shot for the award despite his recent remarks at the United Nations claiming “everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.”
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be the final award of the season, set to be announced on Monday.
Nobel Prizes are traditionally awarded on Dec. 10 — the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite, created the prizes to recognize groundbreaking contributions in various fields.
Each Nobel Prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (nearly $1.2 million), along with an 18-carat gold medal and a diploma presented during the formal ceremonies in Stockholm and Oslo.
