STOCKHOLM (AP) 鈥� After three days of honoring work in the sciences, the literature award is being announced Thursday by the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy.
The winner will follow Norwegian writer who was honored last year for writing in Nynorsk, one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, that prize organizers said gives 鈥渧oice to the unsayable.鈥�
The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has also been male-dominated, with just 17 women among its 119 laureates. The last woman to win was Annie Ernaux of France, in 2022.
Six days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize. Two founding fathers of machine learning 鈥� John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton 鈥� won the on Tuesday. On Wednesday, three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the economics award on Oct. 14.
The prize ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award鈥檚 creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel鈥檚 death.
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Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.
Daniel Niemann And Mike Corder, The Associated Press
