The Swedish Academy will announce the laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, the most sought-after literary award in the world, on 10 October 2019. We've listed 9 facts about the Award that you probably don't know:
Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel received a mistaken obituary that led him into thinking of a more striking way of leaving a mark for people to remember him. He significantly contributed to the fields of chemistry, literature, engineering, and entrepreneurship in the 1800s, and is known for creating new types of explosives, which made him acquire millions.
In 1895, Nobel signed his last will and testament, stating that most of his fortune will be used to fund a series of prizes in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace — the Nobel Prizes. The Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in honour of the inventor.
One of these awards is the Nobel Prize in Literature, which is considered as the world’s most coveted literary prize. The Swedish prize is awarded annually and for this year, it will be announced on 10 October 2019. The Swedish Academy will announce two literature laureates: one for 2019 and the deferred winner for 2018. We’ve listed 9 facts about the most esteemed literary prize that we bet you haven’t heard of:
It is the most prestigious literary award
The Swedish Academy annually awards 16 prizes and the most famous and prestigious being the Nobel Literature Prize. This prize is according to the will of Alfred Nobel, who was impressively fluent in five languages at the age of 17. Writers from different parts of the world are nominated and the winning individual gets a medal and diploma, along with monetary prize that varies every year.