<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1l9atJ_0vyrzB3R00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1l9atJ_0vyrzB3R00" width="800" height="400" ></figure>The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced this Thursday, October 10. Who will win? As ever, no one knows. But everyone likes to guess…and bet. And because money talks, the betting odds can tell you a lot. Or a little. Or, something, anyway!To figure out where to put my (extremely metaphorical) money this year, I consulted Ladbrokes, the UK’s premiere (?) betting outlet, which offers an extensive list of favorites, including many old hats and a few new ones.Can Xue tops the list for the second year in a row. Is this her year? (I wouldn’t be surprised—last year, I predicted that she would win in 2024.) Australian novelist Gerald Murnane is in second place. Is it his year? After all, last year he was third, and in second place was Jon Fosse, who won. So it only follows. Maybe, maybe. Murakami is hanging around as always; César Aira is in the mix; the Greek writer Ersi Sotiropoulos makes a surprise appearance. Margaret Atwood has rather come up in the world since last year, when her odds were 39/1. Robert Coover is on the list, though very sadly, now ineligible. J.K. Rowling is in the insult slot, which made me laugh.Anyway, one of these writers (or possibly another person altogether) will win 11 million Swedish krona (almost a million US dollars). See the full Ladbrokes list below, and place your bets.Here are the odds as of this writing:Can Xue – 10/1Gerald Murnane – 12/1Haruki Murakami– 14/1César Aira – 16/1Ersi Sotiropoulos – 16/1Margaret Atwood – 16/1Thomas Pynchon – 16/1Anne Carson – 20/1Bushra al-Maqtari – 20/1Carl Frode Tiller – 20/1Norbert Gstrein – 20/1Pierre Michon – 20/1Ali Ahmad Said Esber – 25/1Dag Solstad – 25/1Don DeLillo – 25/1Ludmila Ulitskaja – 25/1László Krasznahorkai – 25/1Mieko Kanai – 25/1Mircea Cărtărescu – 25/1Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – 25/1Peter Nadas – 25/1Salman Rushdie – 25/1Karl Ove Knausgaard – 28/1Leslie Marmon Silko – 28/1Mia Couto – 28/1Michel Houellebecq – 28/1William T. Vollmann – 28/1Alexis Wright – SUSPAnanda Devi – 33/1Andrey Kurkov – 33/1António Lobo Antunes – 33/1Colson Whitehead – 33/1David Grossman – 33/1Duong Thu Huong – 33/1Edmund White – 33/1Emmanuel Carrère – 33/1Enrique Vila-Matas – 33/1Garielle Lutz – 33/1Hamid Ismailov – 33/1Han Kang – 33/1Homero Aridjis – 33/1Hwang Sok-yong – 33/1Hélène Cixous – 33/1Ivan Klíma – 33/1Jamaica Kincaid – 33/1Joy Harjo – 33/1Joyce Carol Oates – 33/1Mahmoud Dowlatabadi – 33/1Marie NDiaye – 33/1Marilynne Robinson – 33/1Martha Nussbaum – 33/1Nuruddin Farah – 33/1Robert Coover – 33/1Robert Macfarlane – 33/1Ryszard Krynicki – 33/1Salim Barakat – 33/1Scholastique Mukasonga – 33/1Sebastian Barry – 33/1Tahar Ben Jelloun – 33/1Yan Lianke – 33/1Amitav Ghosh – 40/1Ivan Vladislavic – 40/1Linton Kwesi Johnson – 40/1Louise Erdrich – 40/1Patricia Grace – 40/1Paulina Chiziane – 40/1Vladimir Sorokin – 40/1Wendell Berry – 40/1Xiaolu Guo – 40/1Ali Smith – 50/1Botho Strauss – 50/1Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – 50/1Claudio Magris – 50/1David Peace – 50/1Ko Un – 50/1Murray Bail – 50/1Stephen King – 50/1Yoko Tawada – 50/1Yu Hua – 50/1Zoe Wicomb – 50/1J.K. Rowling – 66/1</div></body>

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Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced this Thursday, October 10. Who will win? As ever, no one knows. But everyone likes to guess…and bet. And because money talks, the betting odds can tell you a lot. Or a little. Or, something, anyway!. To figure out where...

Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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