And the winner is ...

[Dave Monroe]

"Consensus is that poets, South Americans and Scandinavians have been
underrepresented in the selections of recent years (though not as much
as black Africans); safe picks for geographical distribution would
probably include the perpetual candidates Llosa and Fuentes, Swedish
poet Tomas Tranströmer and Syrian poet Adonis."

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/10/05/claim-an-author-in-our-annual-nobel-prize-in-literature-pool

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/07/nobel-prize-2010-literature-winner-mario-vargas-llosa_n_753011.html

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>