And the winner is ...

[Dave Monroe]

Ladbroke's has taken down the page, but from a cached copy of ...

http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/awards/nobel-literature-prize/2010-nobel-literature-prize-e214493738

... he ended up @ 25/1 (Pynchon, meanwhile, dropped from 15/1 to 22/1) ...

However ...

"Tomorrow the Swedish Academy will announce the winner of the Nobel
Prize for Literature and various sportsbooks, like Ladbroke’s, are
laying odds. But since the Swedish academy’s methods for selecting the
prize-winner are a mystery to all but its members, those odds reflect
almost exclusively the opinions of gamblers, most of whom are rather
like the horseplayers who bet their favorite number or color of the
jockey’s silks. That is to say, they’re suckers."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/betting-nobel-prize-literature_500991.html

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:22 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Was he on that short list w/ odds?
>
>> The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa
>