It is said that Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has the best chance to win the prize.
Other winners include Canadian short story writer Alice Munro;
American novelist Joyce Carol Oates;
Philip Roth
Thomas Pynchon
Hungarian novelist Peter Nadas, etc.
In China, writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Li Rui, Bei Dao and Wang Yuewen were nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature.
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