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FILE - A Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 record photograph of a Nobel Prize medal. The Nobel Prize successful Literature is owed to beryllium awarded connected Thursday Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

STOCKHOLM – The 2021 Nobel Prize for lit is being announced Thursday, an grant that has successful the past honored poets, novelists and adjacent a songwriter, Bob Dylan.

The Swedish Academy volition denote the recipient successful Stockholm astatine astir 1 p.m. (1100 GMT; 7 a.m. EDT). Winners are famously hard to predict. This year's favorites, according to British bookmakers, see Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o, French writer Annie Ernaux, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Canada's Margaret Atwood and Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid.

Last year's prize went to American writer Louise Glück for what the judges described arsenic her “unmistakable poetic dependable that with austere quality makes idiosyncratic beingness universal.”

Glück was a fashionable prime aft respective years of controversy. In 2018 the grant was postponed aft enactment maltreatment allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, the secretive assemblage that chooses the winners. The awarding of the 2019 prize to Austrian writer Peter Handke caused protests due to the fact that of his beardown enactment for the Serbs during the 1990s Balkan wars.

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The prestigious grant comes with a golden medal and 10 cardinal Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million). The prize wealth comes from a bequest near by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died successful 1895.

On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize successful physiology oregon medicine to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the quality assemblage perceives somesthesia and touch.

The Nobel Prize successful physics was awarded Tuesday to three scientists whose enactment recovered bid successful seeming disorder, helping to explicate and foretell analyzable forces of nature, including expanding our knowing of clime change.

Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan were named arsenic laureates of the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for uncovering an easier and environmentally cleaner mode to physique molecules that tin beryllium utilized to marque compounds, including medicines and pesticides.

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Still to travel are prizes volition besides beryllium awarded for outstanding enactment successful the fields of bid and economics.

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