2009 Nobel Prize for Literature Announced Today!

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STOCKHOLM, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 will be annouced on Oct. 8, the Swedish Academy which hands out the 10 million crown ($1.42 million) award said on Friday.

Israeli novelist Amos Oz, who was widely tipped last year when Frenchman Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio bagged the award, is the favourite to win, according to bookmakers Ladbrokes. Second-favourite is Algerian novelist Assia Djebar.

($1=7.046 Swedish Crown)

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Selection Odds:
Amos Oz 4/1

Assia Djebar 5/1

Luis Goytisola 6/1

Joyce Carol Oates 7/1

Philip Roth 7/1

Adonis 8/1

Antonio Tabucchi 9/1

Claudio Magris 9/1

Haruki Murakami 9/1

Thomas Pynchon 9/1

Thomas Transtromer 12/1
Arnot Lustig 16/1
Atiq Rahimi 16/1
Don DeLillo 16/1
Ko Un 16/1
Les Murray 16/1
Mario Vargas Llosa 16/1
Yves Bonnefoy 16/1
Cees Nooteboom 20/1
Peter Handke 20/1
Alice Munro 25/1
Bob Dylan 25/1?!
Juan Marse 25/1
Margaret Atwood 25/1
Ngugi wa Thiongo 25/1
A.B Yehousha 40/1
A. S. Byatt 50/1
Bei Dao 50/1
Carlos Fuentes 50/1
Chinua Achebe 50/1
Gitta Sereny 50/1
Herta Muller 50/1
Mahasweta Devi 50/1
Michael Ondaatje 50/1
Milan Kundera 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
Salman Rushdie 80/1
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
William H Gass 100/1