British Gambling Website Gives Joyce Carol Oates 18-1 Odds to Win Nobel Prize in Literature
Princeton creative writing professor (and literary superstar) Joyce Carol Oates has an 18-1 chance to win this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, according to British gambling website Ladbrokes.com.The site gives only 11 people better odds to win than Oates, including heavy favorite Cormac McCarthy at 5-2 odds. Haruki Murakami, who also taught at Princeton, was given 10-1 odds.Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel in 1993, is the only Princeton faculty member ever to win in literature (Princeton alum Eugene O'Neill '10 picked one up in 1936).Oates turned 72 in June, which falls comfortably within the bandwidth of age acceptability. Last year's winner, Herta Muller, was 57 , and Doris Lessing won the Nobel in 2007 at the ripe old age of 90 (full list with ages here).All available bets on the award (including long shot Bob Dylan (?!) at 100-1) after the jump! (If gambling were legal, that is. The Ink does not condone gambling on major literary awards.)Source: http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/Awards/Nobel-Literature-PrizeAwards/Nobel-Literature-Prize-t210003519 (As of 5 p.m. Eastern U.S.)
| Ngugi wa Thiong'o 7/2 | |||
| Cormac McCarthy | 5/2 | ||
| Ulrich Holbein | 7/1 | ||
| Haruki Murakami | 10/1 | ||
| Gerald Murnane | 11/1 | ||
| Ko Un | 12/1 | ||
| Adonis | 13/1 | ||
| Les Murray | 15/1 | ||
| Juan Gelman | 15/1 | ||
| Alice Munro | 16/1 | ||
| Tomas Transtromer | 17/1 | ||
| Thomas Pynchon | 22/1 | ||
| Joyce Carol Oates | 18/1 | ||
| E.L Doctorow | 22/1 | ||
| Adam Zagajewski | 25/1 | ||
| Claudio Magris | 25/1 | ||
| Amos Oz | 25/1 | ||
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 25/1 | ||
| John Ashbery | 25/1 | ||
| Gitta Sereny | 30/1 | ||
| Assia Djebar | 33/1 | ||
| Philip Roth | 33/1 | ||
| A.S. Byatt | 33/1 | ||
| Maya Angelou | 33/1 | ||
| Carlos Fuentes | 33/1 | ||
| Michel Tournier | 35/1 | ||
| Vaclav Havel | 35/1 | ||
| Nestor Amarilla | 40/1 | ||
| Yves Bonnefoy | 40/1 | ||
| Don DeLillo | 40/1 | ||
| Arnot Lustig | 40/1 | ||
| Javier Marias | 40/1 | ||
| Margaret Atwood | 45/1 | ||
| Milan Kundera | 45/1 | ||
| Peter Handke | 45/1 | ||
| Cees Nooteboom | 45/1 | ||
| Juan Marse | 45/1 | ||
| Bei Dao | 45/1 | ||
| Shlomo Kalo | 45/1 | ||
| Chinua Achebe | 45/1 | ||
| Antonio Tabucchi | 50/1 | ||
| Anne Carson | 50/1 | ||
| A.B. Yehoshua | 50/1 | ||
| David Malouf | 50/1 | ||
| Ernesto Cardinal | 55/1 | ||
| Antonio Lobo Antunes | 55/1 | ||
| Eeva Kilpi | 55/1 | ||
| William Trevor | 55/1 | ||
| Umberto Eco | 55/1 | ||
| Elias Khoury | 55/1 | ||
| Ian McEwan | 55/1 | ||
| Luis Goytisolo | 66/1 | ||
| Patrick Modiano | 66/1 | ||
| Bella Akhmadulina | 66/1 | ||
| Ismail Kadare | 66/1 | ||
| Jonathan Littell | 66/1 | ||
| Michael Ondaatje | 66/1 | ||
| Salman Rushdie | 66/1 | ||
| Eduardo Galeano | 66/1 | ||
| Per Petterson | 75/1 | ||
| Paul Auster | 75/1 | ||
| Jon Fosse | 75/1 | ||
| Harry Mulisch | 75/1 | ||
| Atiq Rahimi | 75/1 | ||
| Mahasweta Devi | 100/1 | ||
| Julian Barnes | 100/1 | ||
| F. Sionil Jose | 100/1 | ||
| Marge Piercy | 100/1 | ||
| Mary Gordon | 100/1 | ||
| Bob Dylan | 100/1 | ||
| John le Carre | 100/1 | ||
| John Banville | 125/1 | ||
| Kjell Askildsen | 125/1 | ||
| Peter Carey | 125/1 | ||
| William H. Gass | 125/1 | ||
| Vassilis Aleksaskis | 125/1 | ||
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko | 150/1 |