And the winner is ...

[rich]

Llosa is a great writer and am happy he won it. I think he's been a
much more consistently good writer over the years more than Fuentes

rich

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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
>>>
>>
>