Nobel Literature Prize Betting Odds
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Another market has opened on this week’s Nobel Prize Awards, this time its Ladbrokes, who are running a book on the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (to become a Nobel Laureate in Literature).
Here are the current betting odds available from Labrokes (click the link at the right-hand side of this page to get details about the Ladbrokes Free £10 Matched Bet too!):
Literature Prize Winner
Claudio Magris 3/1
Adonis 4/1
Amos Oz 5/1
Joyce Carol Oates 5/1
Philip Roth 5/1
Don DeLillo 7/1
Haruki Murakami 7/1
Les Murray 7/1
Yves Bonnefoy 10/1
Inger Christensen 14/1
Jean Marie Gustav Le Clezio 14/1 – Winner
Michael Ondaatje 14/1
Thomas Pynchon 14/1
Arnošt Lustig 20/1
Ismail Kadare 20/1
Ko Un 20/1
Mario Vargas Llosa 20/1
Thomas Transtromer 20/1
A.B Yehousha 25/1
Assia Djebar 25/1
Milan Kundera 25/1
Cees Nooteboom 33/1
Gitta Sereny 33/1
Harry Mulisch 33/1
James Ngugi 33/1
Margaret Atwood 33/1
Alice Munro 40/1
Antoni Tabucchi 40/1
Bei Dao 40/1
Carlos Fuentes 40/1
Peter Carey 40/1
Umberto Eco 40/1
Chinua Achebe 50/1
Cormac McCarhty 50/1
Herta Müller 50/1
Ian McEwan 50/1
John Updike 50/1
Mahasweta Devi 50/1
A. S. Byatt 66/1
David Malouf 66/1
Ernesto Cardenal 66/1
F. Sionil Jose 66/1
Marge Piercy 66/1
Maya Angelou 66/1
Salman Rushdie 66/1
Willy Kyrklund 66/1
Adam Zagajewski 100/1
Beryl Bainbridge 100/1
E.L Doctorow 100/1
Eeva Kilpi 100/1
John Banville 100/1
Jonathan Little 100/1
Julian Barnes 100/1
Mary Gordon 100/1
Michael Tournier 100/1
Patrick Modiano 100/1
Paul Auster 100/1
Rosalind Belben 100/1
Vassilis Aleksakis 100/1
William H Gass 100/1
Bob Dylan 150/1
Literature Award Specials
Thomas Pynchon to win and attend the Nobelfest (10th Dec. 2008) 40/1
The winner will attend the Nobelfest (10th Dec. 2008) evens
Gender of Winner
Male 4/11
Female 2/1
Continent of Winner
Europe 2/1
Asia 2/1
North America 2/1
South America 8/1
Australasia 8/1
Africa 14/1
Best of luck whoever you choose – we couldn’t possibly predict the outcome of this one!
The Nobel Prize for Literature is announced tomorrow (Thursday 8 October 2008) at 1pm CET at the earliest.
Click here for the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize Betting Odds!
Jean Marie Gustav Le Clezio won this year’s Nobel Literature Prize.
When Pamuk won in 2006, he wasn’t listed in the top 10. I’m hoping an Latin America writer wins this year. I’m surprised that Elena Poniatowska isn’t listed in the list above.
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