NOBEL PRIZES IN LITERATURE — 2018 AND 2019 // 10.10.2019
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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk
«for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.»
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke
«for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.»
Here are the bookies’ odds for the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature:
Anne Carson 4/1
Maryse Condé 5/1
Can Xue 8/1
Haruki Murakami 8/1
Lyudmila Ulitskaya 8/1
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 8/1
Margaret Atwood 10/1
Marilynne Robinson 10/1
Olga Tokarczuk 10/1
Péter Nádas 10/1
Adunis 14/1
Gerald Murnane 14/1
Mircea Cartarescu 14/1
Ya Hua 14/1
Ismail Kadaré 17/1
Javier Marías 20/1
Jon Fosse 20/1
László Krasznahorkai 20/1
Milan Kundera 20/1
Peter Handke 20/1
Yoko Tawada 20/1
César Aira 25/1
Yang Lian 25/1
Ko Un 33/1
Ernesto Cardenal 50/1
George R. R. Martin 250/1