Nobel Prize for Literature to Be Live Webcast

Posted on October 6, 2009

The Nobel Prize for Literature will be broadcast live from the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, October 8, at 1:00 p.m. CET, 11:00 a.m. GMT. After the winner is announced, the site will broadcast an interview with Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. You can tune in here to watch it live on October 8. The link goes live thirty minutes before the announced time.

Ladbrokes, the British bookmakers, give Israeli novelist Amos Oz, the edge for the win. The next favorite is Algerian novelist Assia Djebar

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