The Swedish Academy will announce the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday at 1 p.m. Bookmakers currently see French Michel Houellebecq at the top, followed by Canadian Anne Carson and French Annie Ernaux. Salman Rushdie, who was recently seriously injured in an assassination attempt, is also in the top ranks of betting providers.
The award, which is endowed with ten million Swedish crowns (around 925,000 euros), will then be presented together with the other Nobel prizes on December 10th, the anniversary of the death of the Swedish dynamite inventor and prize donor Alfred Nobel. Most recently, Olga Tokarczuk (for 2018) and Peter Handke (for 2019), the US poet Louise Glück (2020) and the Zanzibar author Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in a double announcement.