With the Nobel Prize in literature expected to be announced next month, a group of experts discuss the strongest Chinese candidates for the coveted award. Xing Yi and Liu Zhihua report.

A group of Sinologists have "nominated" the most promising Chinese candidates for the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature, which is expected to be announced in October.

Most said novelist Liu Zhenyun is the strongest candidate to win the prize. The Sinologists made the nomination during a symposium on Chinese literature and translation last month in Beijing. Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2012.