In the UK, a country where its citizens bet on nearly everything, except possibly the weather, the COMPLETE REVIEW’S LITERARY SALOON has just posted the odds (per Ladbrokes) as to the next winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The top ten betting favorites are as follows:
Amos Oz                4/1
Assia Djebar           5/1
Juan Goytisolo        6/1
Joyce Carol Oates   7/1
Philip Roth              7/1
Adonis                    8/1
Antoni Tabucchi       9/1
Claudio Magris         9/1
Haruki Murakami      9/1
Thomas Pynchon      9/1
 
I’m not placing a bet, but I suspect that it’s time for Umberto Ecco to be recognized this year.  Any thoughts out there?

And watch for the Booker announcement; it’s fast approaching.