The prestigious prize will be awarded at noon BST – follow the announcement as it happens and join the conversation in the comments
Last year, French writer Annie Ernaux was named laureate. To find out more about the author of A Man’s Place and Happening, read Sinéad Gleeson’s guide to her work here:
The new Nobel laureate in literature will be announced today, but getting to this point is a lengthy process.
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.
