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Nobel Literature Prize 2020
Nobel Prize Literature Predictions 2019

Perennial Nobel favorite Haruki Murakami (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Currently, EnergyBet has all the odds you need for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which will be given in September this year to one of the nominees. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o from Kenya has the best odds to win the prize for his work standing at 5/1, followed by Haruki Murakami from Japan with odds 8/1 and Margaret Atwood with odds 10/1. Sports betting odds at Ladbrokes Sports. View for tips, available match odds, live-results and more. Football, Horse Racing and more! Bet now with Ladbrokes! The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. Get the Latest Nobel Prize Betting Odds Put on your thinking cap and get ready to speculate on the world's most prestigious intellectual prizes. Each year when the best minds in chemistry, literature, physics, peace and more are honoured for their contributions to the world, we put together a great collection of Nobel Prize odds around.

Background Information Nobel Prize In Literature

Maybe it’s because there are way more people who read books than there are people who follow developments in chemistry. Maybe it’s that people like betting, and betting on literature feels more edifying than going to the racetrack. Either way, this week brings the culmination of the speculation around the Nobel Prize in Literature, to be awarded tomorrow. As ever, the chatter is focused around betting on British site Ladbrokes, where, as of this writing, Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is the odds-on favorite, with Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami pulling a close second. This despite the fact that, speculation aside, the winner is a closely held secret — and the fact that, in recent years, the winner has been someone entirely unexpected.

This speculation is nothing new for Murakami, in fact; he was a favorite among bettors last year, followed by Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro and American scribe Joyce Carol Oates. Munro ended up beating odds only slightly stacked against her and picking up the prize, as did Chinese writer Mo Yan in 2012, when Murakami was, again, the frontrunner. This compilation of bettors’ favorites compared to actual winners by The New Republic indicates just how rare it is for the odds to favor actual winners. The predicted winner is, with some consistency, more famous and more traditionally “awardable” (less experimental, say) than the actual winner. The widely-honored Syrian poet Adonis is often the predicted winner, but Nobels often go to writers that thrive on controversy, like Harold Pinter, or write shockingly explicit books, like Elfreide Jelinek, or work in obscurity, like Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.

There are names that consistently appear, year after year, in Nobel speculation — Murakami, Adonis, Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, Bob Dylan. And their recurrence, as well as the very act of Nobel Prize betting, demeans both the winners and the losers. The Nobel Prize for Literature has for decades now been peculiar and idiosyncratic, as likely to go to a radical playwright or little-read poet as to a more renowned writer. But bettors engage, year after year, in magical thinking, that this will be the year that Murakami or Adonis, about as successful and respected as a novelist and a poet can be, will get an award. When they lose, it becomes a disappointment, and the winner, whoever that is, looks like an interloper.

The Literature Nobel is more fun to speculate upon because literature itself is so subjective; unless prizes for chemistry or physics, with their empirical evidence, one person’s great leap forward for writing is another’s failed experiment. But excitable coverage of the Ladbrokes betting should be taken both with a grain of salt, as it’s usually wrong, and a sense that the real fun of the Nobel is its serendipity. The real frontrunner for the prize, if history is guide, is someone we’re not thinking of — an exciting twist ending.

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Nobel Literature Prize 2020

While the Nobel Prize ceremony might not attract as much attention as the Oscars or Golden Globes, every year the Nobel Committee continues to recognize and celebrate the scientists, artists and thinkers who quietly change the world. It’s an annual red-letter day in world culture — even without the red carpet.

Everyone loves awards and award winners. But no prize matches the prestige of being a Nobel Laureate.

These awards have been handed out for nearly 12 decades in six categories including physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace and literature — and the Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive in these fields.

Nobel Prize Literature Predictions 2019

In the field of literature, where winners boast an incredibly wide and influential body of work, the Nobel Prize overshadows even the prominent Pulitzer Prize. With the winners for 2020 being announced in October, we thought we’d spotlight some of our favourite winners from past years and cast our predictions for who might take the prize home this year. Each title on this list can be found in Audible’s impressive library of over nearly a half million audiobooks and can start you down a very well-appointed list of literary listens.