Countdown: now less than 24 hours to go. The tension is too great O!
This is today's news from Dagens Nyheter about what could be announced
tomorrow:
On Oct 5, 2:07 am, Funmi Tofowomo Okelola <cafeafrica...@aol.com>
wrote:
> Bettors, Take Note: In Nobel Prize Pool, Kenyan Author Is No Longer A
> Long Shot
>
> by DAVID GURA
> UPDATE at 4:27 p.m. ET:
> He has pulled ahead! Ngugi wa Thiong'o's odds are now 7/2.
>
> UPDATE at 3:04 p.m. ET:
> Ngugi wa Thiong'o's odds are now 5/1, just behind Tomas Transtromer.
>
> ORIGINAL POST:
> We issued a call to all of the belletristic bookies in our audience,
> to bet on the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, which
> the Swedish Academy is scheduled to announce on Thursday.
>
> Last week, Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer had the best odds, according
> to Ladbrokes: 4/1. Although he still tops the list today, he has
> company from a former long shot:
>
> "Ngugi wa Thiong'o heavily backed to win the Nobel Literature Prize,"
> Betting Pro declares.
>
> Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been the subject of the biggest
> gamble in the history of the Nobel Literature Prize, according to
> Ladbrokes.
>
> The 72-year old ex-prisoner was 75/1 for the prize when the bookies
> opened their market last week but those odds have collapsed. He is now
> the 6/1 second favourite.
>
> And Ladbrokes believe the massive gamble is the biggest of its kind in
> Nobel Prize betting history.
>
> Spokesman David Williams said: "We've never seen anything like it.
> Ngugi was a rank outsider when we first looked at the candidates but
> we fear we've got it horribly wrong. Punters cant get enough of him
> and we're dreading him being announced the winner."
>
> In 2004, NPR's Noah Adams spoke with Thiong'o about "the importance of
> creating literature in small languages in order to preserve world
> cultures." You can listen to it here.
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