Follow latest updates as this year’s winner is decided by Swedish writers, linguists, literary scholars, historians and a prominent jurist
Ellen Mattson, writer and member of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Committee, said the “world is full of very good, excellent writers, and you need something more to be a laureate”.
She said it’s difficult to explain what that something more is, but that it’s “something you’re born with, I think”. “The romantics would call it a divine spark,” she added.
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 university colleges;
Previous Nobel Prize laureates in literature
Presidents of those societies of authors that are representative of the literary production in their respective countries
