Nobel season upon 2014 |
The
panel that awards the Nobel Prize in literature says it will announce the
winner of the 2014 award on Thursday.
The
Swedish Academy by tradition is the last of the Nobel Prize-awarding
institutions to confirm the date of the announcement.
The
2014 Nobel Prize announcements start Monday with the medicine prize and end
Oct. 13 with the award in economics.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o - famed Kenyan writer, one of the bookmaker's favourite.
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Each
prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor, or about US$1.1 million. The awards
will be handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of prize
creator Alfred Nobel.
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