Nobel panel to announces of Literature Prize Winner

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The winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.

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Salman Rushdie is considered a clear contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Salman Rushdie is an author of India and a free speech advocate.

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The 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" was called by Iran in which he spent years in hiding.

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Rushdie, 75, was stabbed to injured at a ceremony in New York State.

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Probable winners: Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Japan's Haruki Murakami, Norway's John Fosse, Antigua-born Jamaican Kincaid and France's Annie Arnoux

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Last year's winners were: - UK-based writer Abdulrajak Gurnah received the Nobel Prize.

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