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Old 10-05-2015, 06:20 AM   #1
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So it's Nobel Prize week again...

Anybody interested in the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Any guesses, anyone you're rooting for?

Personally, I think the prize is pretty much irrelevant, but I still find it fun to speculate a bit. And I'd really like Pynchon to win it.

Here's a link to the current odds at Ladbrokes:

https://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/b...ure/220019571/
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Old 10-05-2015, 07:18 AM   #2
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Books on a sports betting website...

Here's an interesting quote from Murakami, which I found on the Wall Street Journal website:

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“It isn’t like there’s an official shortlist, it’s just private bookmakers coming up with these odds. It’s not as if this were a horse race.”
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Yes, always worth bearing in mind that the Nobel Prize for Literature is generally given as a recognition of an author's lifetime achievements, rather than (as with most other literary awards) for a specific work.
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Yes, always worth bearing in mind that the Nobel Prize for Literature is generally given as a recognition of an author's lifetime achievements, rather than (as with most other literary awards) for a specific work.

This is true.

However, the award often coincides with an important new release by an author.

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I'm guessing it will be a woman based on recent patterns of winners.
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Just noticed that Ladbrokes have E.L Doctorow on their list of possible winners. Doesn't look as if there was a lot of serious betting going on for the Literature Nobel if they leave making up the odds to a temp...
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Just noticed that Ladbrokes have E.L Doctorow on their list of possible winners.
Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously. Doctorow died in July, hence can't be awarded the prize.
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Errm..hence my post...
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Sorry, I didn't (and still don't) understand that to be the meaning of your message .
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Old 10-06-2015, 07:16 AM   #11
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Well, I meant to say that getting their list of odds right can't be a very high priority at Ladbrokes if they have it put together by someone who doesn't know the most basic facts about the matter at hand: a person who either doesn't know about the "no posthumous Nobels" rule, or that Doctorow is dead.
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Well, I meant to say that getting their list of odds right can't be a very high priority at Ladbrokes if they have it put together by someone who doesn't know the most basic facts about the matter at hand: a person who either doesn't know about the "no posthumous Nobels" rule, or that Doctorow is dead.
Thanks - all is now clear!
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Surely there's a cutoff point? I mean, what if they were intending to give this year's award to Henning Mankell?
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Surely there's a cutoff point? I mean, what if they were intending to give this year's award to Henning Mankell?
There is a little flexibility. There was a case recently where one of the science prizes was announced and it turned out that the recipient had died a few days earlier. But a prize is never knowingly awarded to someone who's dead.
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LITERATURE PRIZE — Mark Dingemanse [THE NETHERLANDS, USA], Francisco Torreira [THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, USA], and Nick J. Enfield [AUSTRALIA, THE NETHERLANDS], for discovering that the word "huh?" (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language — and for not being quite sure why.
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