So far this year all the Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Americans. The Medicine, Chemistry, Physics and Economics Prizes have all been announced. This is likely to change as of Thursday, when the Literature Prize is announced. Why? Well for starters, three of the last four prizes have gone to people writing in English. It is highly speculated that this years prize will go to someone writing in another language.
English betting site Ladbrokes.com has the current odds as shown below the cut:
Orhan Pamuk 5/2
Adonis 5/1
Ryszard Kapuściński 5/1
Joyce Carol Oates 6/1
Ko Un 10/1
Philip Roth 10/1
Haruki Murakami 12/1
Inger Christensen 12/1
Tomas Tranströmer 12/1
Amos Oz 14/1
Claudio Magris 14/1
Hugo Claus 14/1
Antonio Tabucchi 20/1
Milan Kundera 20/1
Thomas Pynchon 20/1
William H Gass 20/1
Cees Nooteboom 25/1
Chinua Achebe 33/1
Gerald Murnane 33/1
Jean Marie Gustav Le Clezio 33/1
Mario Vargas Llosa 33/1
Assia Djebar 40/1
Gitta Sereny 40/1
John Updike 40/1
Willy Kyrklund 40/1
Bob Dylan 50/1
Cormac McCarthy 50/1
Don DeLillo 50/1
Eeva Kilpi 50/1
Harry Mulisch 50/1
Herta Muller 50/1
Umberto Eco 50/1
Adam Zagajewski 100/1
Bei Dao 100/1
Ian McEwan 100/1
Janette Winterson 100/1
Julian Barnes 100/1
Mahmoud Darwish 100/1
Margaret Atwood 100/1
Olga Tokarczuk 100/1
Patrick Modiano 100/1
Paul Auster 100/1
Salman Rushdie 100/1
