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The Nobel Literature Prize will be announced on Thursday, with speculation in literary circles split over whether it will go to an overdue bestselling author or a relative unknown lifted into the spotlight.
Crowd-pleaser or obscure pick for literature Nobel?
The Swedish Academy gave the award to French memoirist Annie Ernaux. An icon of autobiographical fiction, the author of "The Years" joins the ranks of other prestigious figures in the literary scene.
People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.