Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy, announced the prize in Stockholm, Sweden.
The 53-year-old writer won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetariana disturbing novel in which a woman’s decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences.
Son roman Human Acts was a finalist for the International Booker Prize in 2018.
The literary prize has long been criticized for being too focused on European and North American writers whose prose is heavy on style and light on story. It is also dominated by men, with only 17 women among its 119 winners so far. The last woman to win the Nobel Prize was Frenchwoman Annie Ernaux, in 2022.
Since Monday, six days of ceremonies have been devoted to the announcement of the Nobel laureates, with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize. On Tuesday, two founding fathers of machine learning, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, won the physics prize. On Wednesday, three scientists who discovered powerful techniques for decoding and even designing new proteins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics prize on October 14.
The prize carries a cash prize of 11 million Swedish crowns (C$1.5 million) from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The winners are invited to receive their prizes during ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
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