Nobel Prize in Literature Odds 2009

The end of the year will certainly bring with it summaries and other lists. It also means the annual Nobel Prizes will be awarded soon, including the much talked and speculated about - Nobel Prize in Literature.

This has not escaped the online bookmakers. Ladbrokes has posted the odds for this year's nominees. Represented are all literary types: Israeli author Amos Oz has the best odds of winning - 4 to 1.

Also represented are American novelist Thomas Pynchon and Japanese Haruki Murakami (9 to 1 odds both), Milan Kundera who has faced some political controversy this year (50 to 1 odds), and author of The Kindley Ones, Jonathan Littell (100 to 1).

Only a couple of weeks remain for literary fans and online bettors to speculate about this year's Nobel Prize in Literature winner. Announcements will be made in mid October in Stockholm, Sweden.

The full list:

Selection             Odds

Amos Oz              4/1

Assia Djebar       5/1

Luis Goytisola    6/1

Joyce Carol Oates            7/1

Philip Roth          7/1

Adonis  8/1

Antonio Tabucchi             9/1

Claudio Magris  9/1

Haruki Murakami             9/1

Thomas Pynchon             9/1

Thomas Transtromer      12/1

Arnot Lustig        16/1

Atiq Rahimi         16/1

Don DeLillo         16/1

Ko Un    16/1

Les Murray         16/1

Mario Vargas Llosa          16/1

Yves Bonnefoy  16/1

Cees Nooteboom            20/1

Peter Handke    20/1

Alice Munro       25/1

Bob Dylan            25/1

Juan Marse         25/1

Margaret Atwood            25/1

Ngugi wa Thiongo            25/1

A.B Yehousha    40/1

A. S. Byatt           50/1

Bei Dao                 50/1

Carlos Fuentes  50/1

Chinua Achebe 50/1

Gitta Sereny       50/1

Herta Muller      50/1

Mahasweta Devi              50/1

Michael Ondaatje            50/1

Milan Kundera  50/1

Vassilis Aleksakis              50/1

Adam Zagajewski             66/1

E.L Doctorow     66/1

Harry Mulisch    66/1

Peter Carey        66/1

Umberto Eco     66/1

Salman Rushdie                80/1

Beryl Bainbridge               100/1

Cormac McCarthy            100/1

David Malouf     100/1

Eeva Kilpi             100/1

Ernesto Cardenal             100/1

F. Sionil Jose       100/1

Ian McEwan       100/1

John Banville      100/1

Jonathan Littell 100/1

Julian Barnes      100/1

Kjell Askildsen   100/1

Marge Piercy     100/1

Mary Gordon     100/1

Maya Angelou   100/1

Michel Tournier                100/1

Patrick Modiano               100/1

Paul Auster         100/1

Rosalind Belben                100/1

William H Gass   100/1

There is not only a 10 million Swedish kronor prize for the winner, but also a chance for you to win the pot.