After the prize was postponed last year due to a sexual harassment scandal, two Nobel medals will be awarded today – follow the announcements
At Ladbrokes (as of last Friday), Guadeloupean author (and the winner of last year’s, one-off New Academy award to replace the usual Nobel) Maryse Condé is topping the odds at 4/1. She is followed by Lyudmila Ulitskaya at 5/1, and Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood, both at 6/1. “With the exception of Murakami who is seemingly always the bridesmaid when it comes to Nobel literature runners and riders, the top of betting is dominated by female writers,” said Jessica O’Reilly of Ladbrokes. “Literary punters are convinced that at least one, if not both, awards will be won by women this time around, with Conde and Ulitskaya heavily backed for success.”
Other contenders include Ngugi Wa Thiong’o at 8/1, Anne Carson, Ko Un and Javier Marias at 10/1, Yan Lianke at 12/1, and Amos Oz and Don DeLillo at 16/1.
Welcome to day four of the 2019 Nobel prizes! Losing steam yet? Hopefully not - as today we see the return of the Nobel prize in literature and, for the first time in more than 40 years, two laureates named due to the scandal that cancelled last year’s prize. (More on that later.)
We had the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday. But today is all about authors (or maybe a musician who has “created new poetic expressions”, everything is permissible now). So if you have written a cracking bunch of books (or if your wife did it for you), stay close to your phone.
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