Who Will Win The Nobel Prize For Literature (1 Viewer)

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Ooh it's exciting stuff!

Nearly that time of year again-winner to be announced in mid-November.

Here's Ladbrokes list:

Claudio Magris 5/1
Les Murray 6/1
Philip Roth 7/1
Thomas Transtromer 7/1
Adonis 8/1
Amos Oz 10/1
Haruki Murakami 10/1
Hugo Claus 10/1
Joyce Carol Oates 10/1
Ko Un 10/1
Antoni Tabucchi 20/1
Cees Nooteboom 20/1
Margaret Atwood 20/1
Milan Kundera 20/1
Thomas Pynchon 20/1
Assia Djebar 25/1
Bei Dao 25/1
Don DeLillo 25/1
Jean Marie Gustav Le Clezio 25/1
Mahmoud Darwish 25/1
Peter Carey 25/1
Alice Munro 40/1
Carlos Fuentes 40/1
Gitta Sereny 40/1
Harry Mulisch 40/1
Herta Muller 40/1
Ian McEwan 40/1
Inger Christensen 40/1
John Updike 40/1
Pramoedya Ananta Toer 40/1
Willy Kyrklund 40/1
Chinua Achebe 50/1
Cormac McCarthy 50/1
David Malouf 50/1
Mario Vargas Llosa 50/1
Michel Tournier 50/1
Umberto Eco 50/1
A. B. Yehoshua 100/1
Adam Zagajewski 100/1
E. L. Doctorow 100/1
Eeva Kilpi 100/1
F. Sionil Jose 100/1
John Banville 100/1
Julian Barnes 100/1
Mary Gordon 100/1
Michael Ondaatje 100/1
Patrick Modiano 100/1
Paul Auster 100/1
Salman Rushdie 100/1
William H Gass 100/1
Bob Dylan 500/1

Philip Roth looks value at sevens. I might stick a monkey on him.

Surely Dylan is worth a punt at that price?
 
Wouldn't trust Ladbrokes.

Here's Paddy Power's list:

Cardinal Angelo Scola (Venice)6/1Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga (Honduras)7/1Count Christoph von Schoenborn (Austria)7/1Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Argentina)9/1Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (Italy)10/1Dionigi Tettamanzi (Italy)10/1Francis Arinze (Nigeria)10/1Claudio Hummes (Brazil)12/1Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa (Chile)14/1Cardinal Karl Lehnmann (Germany)16/1Attilio Cardinal Nicora (Roman Curia)20/1Cardianl Ruini (Italy)20/1Cardinal Renato Martino (Italy)20/1JaimeLucas Ortega y Alamino (Cuba)20/1Jose Da Cruz Policar (Portugal)20/1Norberto Rivera Carrera (Mexico)20/1Wilfred Napier (South Africa)20/1Angelo Sodano (Italy)25/1Ivan Dias (India)25/1Antonio María Rouco Var (Spain)33/1Philippe Barbarin (France)33/1Cormac Murphy-OConnor (UK)40/1Giacomo Biffi (Italy)40/1Giovanni Battista Re (Italy)40/1Cardinal Dario Castrillion Hoyos (Colombia)50/1Cardinal Walter Kasper (Germany)50/1Geraldo Majella Agnelo (Brazil)50/1Godfried Danneels (Belgium)50/1Keith O Brien (Scotland)50/1Lopez Rodriguez (Dominican Republic)50/1Cardinal Amigo Vallejo (Spain)66/1Cardinal George Pell (Australia)66/1Jean-marie Lustiger (France)66/1Francis George (USA)80/1Cardinal Carlo Maria Matini (Italy)100/1Silvano Piovanelli (Italy)125/1Bono (Ireland)1000/1Father Dougal Maguire (Craggy Island)1000/1
 
Wouldn't trust Ladbrokes.

Here's Paddy Power's list:

Cardinal Angelo Scola (Venice)6/1Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga (Honduras)7/1Count Christoph von Schoenborn (Austria)7/1Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Argentina)9/1Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (Italy)10/1Dionigi Tettamanzi (Italy)10/1Francis Arinze (Nigeria)10/1Claudio Hummes (Brazil)12/1Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa (Chile)14/1Cardinal Karl Lehnmann (Germany)16/1Attilio Cardinal Nicora (Roman Curia)20/1Cardianl Ruini (Italy)20/1Cardinal Renato Martino (Italy)20/1JaimeLucas Ortega y Alamino (Cuba)20/1Jose Da Cruz Policar (Portugal)20/1Norberto Rivera Carrera (Mexico)20/1Wilfred Napier (South Africa)20/1Angelo Sodano (Italy)25/1Ivan Dias (India)25/1Antonio María Rouco Var (Spain)33/1Philippe Barbarin (France)33/1Cormac Murphy-OConnor (UK)40/1Giacomo Biffi (Italy)40/1Giovanni Battista Re (Italy)40/1Cardinal Dario Castrillion Hoyos (Colombia)50/1Cardinal Walter Kasper (Germany)50/1Geraldo Majella Agnelo (Brazil)50/1Godfried Danneels (Belgium)50/1Keith O Brien (Scotland)50/1Lopez Rodriguez (Dominican Republic)50/1Cardinal Amigo Vallejo (Spain)66/1Cardinal George Pell (Australia)66/1Jean-marie Lustiger (France)66/1Francis George (USA)80/1Cardinal Carlo Maria Matini (Italy)100/1Silvano Piovanelli (Italy)125/1Bono (Ireland)1000/1Father Dougal Maguire (Craggy Island)1000/1

Oops! Silly jane, you posted the list of who's to be next pope! Bono & Dougal Maguire are the same odds!
 
Murakami at 10/1??!! I mean, they are enjoyable books, but hardly worthy of the Nobel Prize.

I agree with most - Philip Roth seems good odds. I read he has a new book on the way soon. After Everyman last year, I'm looking forward to this new one.
 
Murakami at 10/1??!! I mean, they are enjoyable books, but hardly worthy of the Nobel Prize.

I agree with most - Philip Roth seems good odds. I read he has a new book on the way soon. After Everyman last year, I'm looking forward to this new one.

I totally agree. Really surprised to see Murakami's name so high in the betting stakes. I've only read a couple of his books but they were so bland and bereft of style that I was curious as to why he IS rated so highly.
Roth's had a good run of great, big novels since American Pastoral & he's nearly dead (!) so the Swedish Academy don't wanna miss out on this one! Hmm so is Updike but his remit is basically WASPish malaise-hardly the stuff of a Nobel winner regardless of how well he describes it.

A lot of noises on lit-blogs for Carlos Fuentes though. What's his stuff like these days? Last one I read was 'Diana' which wasn't bad.
 

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