Friday, September 25, 2009

current odds on nobel prize of literature

http://passouline.blog.lemonde.fr/2009/09/23/nobel-2009-la-cote-des-ecrivains/

Amos Oz 4/1

Assia Djebar 5/1

Luis Goytisola (ou Juan Goytisolo ? mystère…) 6/1

Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Roth 7/1

Adonis 8/1

Antonio Tabucchi, Claudio Magris, Haruki Murakami, Thomas Pynchon 9/1

Thomas Transtromer 12/1

Arno Lustig, Atiq Rahimi, Don DeLillo, Ko Un, Les Murray, Mario Vargas LLosa, Yves Bonnefoy 16/1

Cees Nooteboom, Peter Handke 20/1


Alice Munro, Bob Dylan, Juan Marse, Margaret Atwood, Ngugi wa Thiongo 25/1

A.B. Yehoshua 40/1

A.S. Byatt, Bei Dao, Carlos Fuentes, Chinua Achebe, Gitta Sereny, Herta Mûller, Mahasweta Devi, Michael Ondaatje, Milan Kundera, Vassilis Aleksakis 50/1

Adam Zagajewski, E.L. Doctorow, Harry Mulisch, Peter Carey, Umberto Eco 66/1

Salman Rushdie 80/1

Beryl Bainbridge, Cormac McCarthy, David Malouf, Eeva Kilpi, Ernesto Cardenal, F.Sionil Jose, John Banville, Ian MacEwan, Julian Barnes, Kjell Askildsen, Marge Piercy, Mary Gordon, Maya Angelou, Michel Tournier, Patrick Modiano, Paul Auster, Rosalind Belben 100/1

William Gass 100