The holder of the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm call - Reuters

MOSCOW, Oct. 10 – RIA Novosti. the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 will be called in Stockholm on Thursday, according to the Swedish Academy, responsible for the award.

On the eve of the announcement of the name of the winner bookmakers made the list of writers who have the greatest chance of getting “Nobelevki.” The most likely candidate they call the Japanese Haruki Murakami. On the second line of betting rankings – Canadian novellistka Alice Munro, on the third – Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich fourth bookmakers gave an American Joyce Carol Oates, and the fifth – Hungarian Peter Nadash.

Below are listed at the betting Cormac McCarthy, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Amos Oz, Bob Dylan, Tom Stoppard and others.

Prize for Literature is considered one of the most anticipated and popular of all five awards bequeathed more than 100 years ago, the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. The award is often a cause for speculation and very active discussions about a possible winner. In addition, experts are not just very surprising choice of the Swedish Academy.

Among the holders of the Nobel Prize for literature in different years were Rudyard Kipling, Maurice Maeterlinck, Rabindranath Tagore, Knut Hamsun, Thomas Mann, John Galsworthy, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Golding, Harold Pinter, Pamuk, Doris Lessing. Representatives of Russia (USSR) also repeatedly received “Nobel Prize” for literature – is Ivan Bunin, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Joseph Brodsky, who, however, received an award under the U.S. flag. Last year the owner of this prestigious award was a writer Mo Yan from China.Winners

other Nobel prizes for 2013 – namely, in medicine or physiology, physics, chemistry, as well as in economics, established in memory of Alfred Nobel, are in Stockholm from 7 to 14 October. In Oslo, October 11, according to Nobel’s will, call the owner or owners of the award of the world.

The awards ceremony will be held by tradition on December 10 in Stockholm on the day of the death of Nobel. The amount of each of the Nobel Prize this year was 8 million Swedish kronor (U.S. $ 1.2 million).

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Nobel Prize in 2013