And the winner is ...

[Dave Monroe]

I treid to place a bet (on Pynchon, of course), but Ladbroke's can't
accept wagers from the US, so ... but that being said, Vargas Llosa
actually was my backup (one of the few listed I've actually read, + a
friend gave me The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta as a birthday present
way back when; also want @ least to get to TW at TEOTW), with Adonis as
the safest bet, though I was hoping, if not Pynchon, someone NOT any
of the following: white, male, Anglophone, American, novelist ... so
as to improve the odds next year.  Dammit, I really could have used
those twenty-five pounds ...

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:39 AM, JD <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.