JCO: Nobel for literature to be awarded Thursday, 10/13/2005

"There has been speculation that the academy was split over whether to hand this year's prize to the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. Other names mentioned have included the Syrian poet Adonis, the American Joyce Carol Oates, and the Swede Thomas Transtromer. The award, worth 10m krona (£735,000), is usually announced on one of the first two Thursdays in October. Unlike the Nobels for peace, medicine, physics, chemistry and economics, the prize date is only announced two days beforehand." 

The above paragraph is from something called "The Guardian Unlimited" -- don't know what it is or whether it is a reputable publication, but some of you may well know.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1589846,00.html