Salman Rushdie is the favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Follow the live

He had won it last year Abdulrazak Gurnaha novelist originally from Tanzania, “for his uncompromising and profound analysis of the effects of colonialism”. The Nobel Prize for Literature of 2022 will be awarded today at 1pm. The name of Salman Rushdie stands out, hit in the neck with a knife by a bomber last August. Author of Satanic verses, for which he was sentenced to death by Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran. But among the eligible names there is also the most controversial Michel Houellebecq, the great French writer of “Submission” and “Serotonina”. Third among the most talked about names and giant of literature is Cormac McCarthy: the writer who started the Streeta book that has become a classic, has as its only but considerable obstacle that of being American: not the profile preferred by the jury, therefore.

Among the cabndidati with a few cards less there are other much discussed writers: the ever present Haruki Murakami; Margaret Atwoodwhose fame exploded later The Handmaid’s Tale and then much discussed for his signature on a letter expressing a clear opposition to cancel culture (an appeal that also found the support of Rushdie, among others); Don DeLillowhose latest effort, White noise, has recently been translated into a film presented at the Venice Film Festival; but also Annie ErnauxFrench author and feminist e Amitav Ghoshan Indian author who is extremely attentive to the issues of climate change.