Leading British bookmakers, Ladbrokes, have set their yearly market for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Their leading contenders read as follows:
- Claudio Magris 5/1
- Les Murray 6/1
- Philip Roth 7/1
- Thomas Transtromer 7/1
- Adonis 8/1
- Amos Oz 10/1
- Haruki Murakami 10/1
- Hugo Claus 10/1
- Joyce Carol Oates 10/1
- Ko Un 10/1
- Antoni Tabucchi 20/1
- Cees Nooteboom 20/1
- Margaret Atwood 20/1
- Milan Kundera 20/1
- Thomas Pynchon 20/1
Australian contenders, other than Les Murray, include Peter Carey at 25/1, and David Malouf at 50/1.
