Björn Wiman

is head of culture at Dagens nyheter.

He believes and hopes that the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård will be this year's Nobel Laureate.

- I think what he has done with his novel series My Struggle is among the most groundbreaking that has been done in fiction in many decades.

And his latest novel, Morgonstjärnan, is among the best written in a fictional way in the world right now, he says.

Karl Ove Knausgård is 52 years old, a young age for a Nobel laureate.

- It would at the same time be an expected and a surprising choice by the Swedish Academy.

Nobody thinks it will be him and therefore it is likely that it will be him, says Björn Wiman.

Anneli Dufva

has for many years worked as a literary critic and is currently a playwright and editor at Dramaten.

She mentions, among others, Annie Ernaux, Joyce Carol Oates and Dubravka Ugrešić on her list of worthy laureates.

- Then I also want to mention Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

She would be a funny winner because she is very well read and writes about big questions.

Half a yellow sun is about the Biafra war and Americanah is about exile and racial issues, says Anneli Dufva.

Victor Malm

is a literary critic at Expressen and has a PhD in literary studies.

He hopes that the Norwegian author Dag Solstad will be this year's winner.

- He is the kind of author who for every new novel almost invents a new rule for how novels can be composed.

I'm very fond of that kind of rather wild novel writing and I think the Swedish Academy is very good at rewarding that kind of novel art, he says and continues:

- I hold Dag Solstad incredibly high.

He is truly one of the greatest novelists in all of Europe in my book.

Kaj Schueler

is a writer, writer and former cultural editor at Svenska dagbladet.

He emphasizes that he does not know who will be awarded the prize this year, but still has hopes.

- It's time for Salman Rushdie to receive the award.

He is a brilliant essayist and corresponds very much to what one can demand of a Nobel laureate.

His novel The Midnight Children must be considered one of the best from the 80's.

And he is a innovator of the art of the novel, not least as far as the Midnight Children are concerned, but also the Satanic verses.