Can Xue, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, César Aira, Gerald Murnane and Thomas Pynchon are among the many authors most probably to win this yr’s Nobel prize in literature, based on bookies.
Chinese language avant-garde creator Can Xue, 71, is Ladbrokes’ favorite to win, with odds of 10/1. She was additionally the favorite to win final yr’s prize, which was finally awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse.
The recipient of the 2024 prize can be introduced on Thursday at midday BST, and can obtain 11m Swedish kronor (£811,780).
“This yr’s Nobel prize race remains to be large open, and whereas we’ve seen robust curiosity in Gerald Murnane and César Aira, it’s Can Xue who stays the most well-liked decide with punters, and continues to go the betting consequently,” stated Alex Apati of Ladbrokes.
Can Xue, whose actual identify is Deng Xiaohua, has twice been longlisted for the worldwide Booker prize together with her novel Love within the New Millennium – translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen – and for her brief story assortment I Stay within the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping.
She was born in 1953 in Changsha, Hunan province. Throughout the Cultural Revolution, her mother and father have been pressured into guide labour within the countryside. Her formal training completed with elementary college. If she is called Nobel laureate, she would be the 18th girl to win the prize, the third Chinese language winner and solely the second nonetheless resident in China after Mo Yan, who obtained it in 2012.
Following Can Xue with 14/1 odds is Japanese author Murakami, who has written greater than a dozen novels – together with Norwegian Wooden, Kafka on the Shore and 1Q84 – in addition to brief story collections and nonfiction.
Atwood and Pynchon are each assigned 16/1 odds. Atwood – the Canadian creator of The Handmaid’s Story and Booker-winning novels The Testaments and The Blind Murderer together with many different novels, poetry collections and works of non-fiction – has lengthy been thought of a contender for the prize. In 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro, who received that yr, apologised to Atwood: “I genuinely thought she would win it very quickly.”
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Additionally with 16/1 odds are Aira, Murnane and Ersi Sotiropoulos. Different authors listed by Ladbrokes embody Anne Carson (20/1), Don DeLillo (25/1), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (25/1), Salman Rushdie (25/1), Karl Ove Knausgård (28/1) and Han Kang (33/1).
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded 116 occasions since 1901. Alongside Fosse, current laureates embody Annie Ernaux, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Louise Glück, Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk.
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