Bookies’ favourites include Canadian poet Anne Carson, Chinese experimental writer Can Xue and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami Canadian poet Anne Carson and Chinese experimental writer Can Xue are the bookies’ favourites this year, with Ladbrokes listing their odds of taking the top gong at 10/1 each. Just behind them are Haruki Murakami (14/1), Gerald Murnane (16/1) and Thomas Pynchon (16/1). At longer odds are Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Jamaica Kincaid. But could the Swedish Academy surprise us? Continue reading...

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