Nobel Prize for Literature 2009 Betting Odds

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A lot of you have been coming in looking for the Nobel Prize for Literature betting odds and leaving comments on last year’s competition – so we’ve decided to show you the odds available for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature will be made at 1pm CET – so 11am GMT on 8th October 2009 (remember we are on British Summer Time, so that will be 12 noon UK time!) – so make sure if you have a feeling about who you think will win this year’s prize, that you place bets before then!

Ladbrokes have the Nobel Literature Market from which we have selected the prices below – to open the Nobel Literature Prize betting with Ladbrokes, you must first register an account, then navigate to the “Sports Betting” section, and click “Specials” on the left-hand menu. Then you need to hit Awards and Nobel Literature Prize 2009.

Here are the betting odds available:

Amos Oz       3/1
Herta Mu�ller     3/1
Joyce Carol Oates     5/1
Philip Roth     5/1
Thomas Pynchon     7/1
Adonis     9/1
Assia Djebar     9/1
Haruki Murakami     9/1
Mario Vargas Llosa     9/1
Claudio Magris     12/1
Don DeLillo     12/1
Thomas Transtromer     12/1
Ismail Kadare     14/1
Ko Un     14/1
Milan Kundera     14/1
A.B Yehoshua     16/1
Luis Goytisolo     16/1
Antonio Tabucchi     20/1
Cees Nooteboom     20/1
Chinua Achebe     20/1
Peter Handke     20/1
Shlomo Kalo     20/1
Alice Munro     25/1
Arno�t Lustig     25/1
Bob Dylan     25/1
Juan Marse     25/1
Les Murray     25/1
Ngugi wa Thiongo     25/1
Yves Bonnefoy     25/1
Atiq Rahimi     40/1
Margaret Atwood     40/1
A. S. Byatt     50/1
Bei Dao     50/1
Carlos Fuentes     50/1
Gitta Sereny     50/1
Mahasweta Devi     50/1
Michael Ondaatje     50/1
Vassilis Aleksakis     50/1
Adam Zagajewski     66/1
E.L Doctorow     66/1
Harry Mulisch     66/1
Peter Carey     66/1
Umberto Eco     66/1
William H Gass     66/1
William Trevor     66/1
Salman Rushdie     80/1
Antonio Lobo Antunes     100/1
Beryl Bainbridge     100/1
Cormac McCarthy     100/1
David Malouf     100/1
Eeva Kilpi     100/1
Ernesto Cardenal     100/1
F. Sionil Jose     100/1
Ian McEwan     100/1
John Banville     100/1
Jonathan Littell     100/1
Julian Barnes     100/1
Kjell Askildsen     100/1
Marge Piercy     100/1
Mary Gordon     100/1
Maya Angelou     100/1
Michel Tournier     100/1
Patrick Modiano     100/1
Paul Auster     100/1
Rosalind Belben     100/1

As you can see, Ladbrokes make Amos Oz and Herta Muller joint favourites, at 3-1 a piece, however, the favourites rarely win the Nobel Prize for Literature in our experience. It might be worth taking a small stakes bet on an outsider, such as Peter Handke of Ko Un.

Visit Ladbrokes to bet on this market online.

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  2. Herta Muller won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009 – congratulations if you had a bet on her! The price of 3/1 was not so great, however, so it looks like the bookmakers got it just about right (as ever!).

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