The Swedish Academy’s decision on this year’s winner of the world’s pre-eminent books prize is predicted to be a leftfield choiceThe winner of this year’s Nobel prize for literature will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy has revealed.The name of the 112th literature laureate – the writer who is deemed by the members of the Swedish Academy to have best fulfilled Alfred Nobel’s will’s stipulation to have produced “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction” – will be unveiled at 1pm local time in Stockholm.