Nobel Stats

So below are some of the odds the bookies are placing on the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is awarded Thursday. For my money, I’d go for Les Murray, Margaret Atwood, or Milan Kundera. Apparently Europeans have won it the last nine of ten years, so the judges might want to go outside, and no Canadians have won it, which makes Atwood a frontrunner.

Claudio Magris 5/1
Les Murray 6/1
Philip Roth 7/1
Thomas Transtromer 7/1
Adonis 8/1
Amos Oz 10/1
Haruki Murakami 10/1
Hugo Claus 10/1
Joyce Carol Oates 10/1
Ko Un 10/1
Antoni Tabucchi 20/1
Cees Nooteboom 20/1
Margaret Atwood 20/1
Milan Kundera 20/1
Thomas Pynchon 20/1