Some surprising names (at least to me), among these Lydia Davies (once dubbed the Empress without cloths) Roth #2 Pynchon equals LeGuin in the odds, lower ranks (but before DeLillo) http://www.nicerodds.co.uk/nobel-prize-in-literature -- Michel - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l