The Announcement of 2009 Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize for Literature betting odds and leaving comments on last year’s competition – so we’ve decided to show you the odds available for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature will be made at 1pm CET – so 11am GMT on 8th October 2009 (remember we are on British Summer Time, so that will be 12 noon UK time!) – so make sure if you have a feeling about who you think will win this year’s prize, that you place bets before then!

Ladbrokes have the Nobel Literature Market from which we have selected the prices below – to open the Nobel Literature Prize betting with Ladbrokes, you must first register an account, then navigate to the “Sports Betting” section, and click “Specials” on the left-hand menu. Then you need to hit Awards and Nobel Literature Prize 2009.

Here are the betting odds available:




Amos Oz 3/1
Herta Muller 3/1
Joyce Carol Oates 5/1
Philip Roth 5/1
Thomas Pynchon 7/1
Adonis 9/1
Assia Djebar 9/1
Haruki Murakami 9/1
Mario Vargas Llosa 9/1
Claudio Magris 12/1
Don DeLillo 12/1
Thomas Transtromer 12/1
Ismail Kadare 14/1
Ko Un 14/1
Milan Kundera 14/1
A.B Yehoshua 16/1
Luis Goytisolo 16/1
Antonio Tabucchi 20/1
Cees Nooteboom 20/1
Chinua Achebe 20/1
Peter Handke 20/1
Shlomo Kalo 20/1
Alice Munro 25/1
Arnot Lustig 25/1
Bob Dylan 25/1
Juan Marse 25/1
Les Murray 25/1
Ngugi wa Thiongo 25/1
Yves Bonnefoy 25/1
Atiq Rahimi 40/1
Margaret Atwood 40/1
A. S. Byatt 50/1
Bei Dao 50/1
Carlos Fuentes 50/1
Gitta Sereny 50/1
Mahasweta Devi 50/1
Michael Ondaatje 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
William H Gass 66/1
William Trevor 66/1
Salman Rushdie 80/1
Antonio Lobo Antunes 100/1
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

As you can see, Ladbrokes make Amos Oz and Herta Muller joint favourites, at 3-1 a piece, however, the favourites rarely win the Nobel Prize for Literature in our experience. It might be worth taking a small stakes bet on an outsider, such as Peter Handke of Ko Un.