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09:06 | 29-09-2009 | Literature, Sport | 1 Comment
The Guardian снова опубликовал котировки к предстоящей церемонии:
Israeli novelist Amos Oz is the favourite to take this year’s Nobel prize for literature, according to the bookies.
Ladbrokes has backed Oz at 4/1 to take the 10m Swedish Krona (£815,000) prize, ahead of Algerian novelist Assia Djebar at 5/1, Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo at 6/1 and American novelists Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth at 7/1. But Oz needn’t start preparing his Nobel speech quite yet: last year’s eventual winner, the French novelist JMG Le Clézio, was initially given odds by Ladbrokes of 14/1 – although these fell after a sustained gamble down to 2/1 before Ladbrokes closed its books with Le Clézio as 1/2 favourite.
Odds on reclusive American writer Thomas Pynchon have narrowed to 9/1 – last year he was at 20/1 (and 40/1 to win and attend the ceremony).
прогресс, то есть, налицо. хотя лучше там и вовсе не участвовать.
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