Nobel odds or Who will be awarded the Nobel Literature Prize

[Mark Kohut]

At a New York Public Library event with Gunter Grass, the interviewer, a very good writer himself, andrew O'Hagan, asked (almost rhetorically) if he, Norman, did not think that the stabbing his wife incident kept him from the Nobel?  He allowed it surely might have.
   
  Most think later Rushdie fell off drastically.........
   
  Just FYI.
   
  

Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
  I'd spread my bucks on Rushdie, Murakami, and Roth.

The Joyce Carol Oates line must be a joke the
Ladbrokes guys threw in. To have JCO at 10-1 and not
have Norman Mailer, John Ashbery or W.S Merwin on the
list at all defies all sense and reason.


--- Werner Presber wrote:

> Nobel odds
> 
> Just yesterday we mentioned that it was getting to
> be Nobel-guessing 
> time, and lo and behold Ladbrokes have put up odds
> for this year's 
> Nobel Prize for Literature.
> 
> It is, pretty much, the usual list of suspects --
> with the 
> obligatory ancient and completely obscure Nordics
> thrown in (Willy 
> Kyrklund, anyone ? (hey, he's 40/1) Eeva Kilpi ?)
> and the apparently 
> now obligatory Bob Dylan (an afterthought at
> 500/1)). Noteworthy 
> that, beside the excusable missing Umlauts they
> still manage to 
> mangle quite a few names: who is going to place a
> bet on Thomas 
> Transtromer, Antoni Tabucchi, or Umberto Ecco ? (And
> if, say, Umberto 
> Eco wins, would they even have to pay out to those
> who bet on this 
> Umberto Ecco ?) They also include one dead guy
> (Pramoedya Ananta Toer 
> -- 40/1, despite being ineligible to win due to his
> deceased 
> status..... ) (In fact, it looks like they just
> copied an early 
> version of last year's list, where they also
> misspelled Tabucchi's 
> name -- and included the already then dead
> Indonesian author .....)
> 
> Anyway, the odds are likely to change as bets are
> placed, so here 
> for reference the current odds of those they
> consider the leading 
> contenders:
> 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
> Other odds of note:
> Don DeLillo 25/1
> Carlos Fuentes 40/1
> Harry Mulisch 40/1
> Mario Vargas Llosa 50/1
> A. B. Yehoshua 100/1
> Salman Rushdie 100/1
> Magris seems way overrated here, but maybe
> that's just to 
> fool you into thinking that, say, Atwood at 20/1 is
> a reasonable 
> bet .....
> We're not sure where we'd put our money if
> we were betting 
> folk; spreading it over Murray/Mulisch/Yehoshua (at
> these odds) would 
> be our first gut instinct.
> 
> text via „the Literary Saloon“. read also „Who Want
> to Wet on Thomas 
> Pynchon“



       
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