CultureHow to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Can Xue, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are regarded as leading contenders this year. The Swedish Academy’s selection process begins with hundreds of nominations, followed by a committee shortlist of five and months of reading and discussion by Academy members before the winner is announced in October. Its criteria remain private, and rejected nominees are not revealed for 50 years.

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