The Nobel prize in literature 2021 – live!
Which author will become the 114th literature laureate?
After a long run of European or North American winners, will this finally be Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s year? The celebrated author is perennially tipped, perennially near the top of the bookies’ odds, and yet always overlooked by the Swedish Academy. Fiammetta Rocco, culture correspondent at the Economist and a fellow Kenyan, is hoping to hear his name come 12pm today. “His most recent book, The Perfect Nine, is his most surprising, proof of how creative he still is at 83,” she told me. “And also, because he is now on daily dialysis, this may be his last chance.”
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