And the winner is ...

[JD]

War at the End of the World on order...

If I had had to pick from what Ladbrokes had as the top 5, I was going
to err towards Ngugi wa Thiong'o, or Tranströmer.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
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