Place your bets on the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature winner

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next week — October 6, to be exact.

Speculation and predictions were surely underway already, somewhere, but with bookies now taking bets, it's officially forecasting season.

Literary Hub consulted the betting site NicerOdds to see its guesses for which author would take home the Nobel ... with, of course, the caveat being that oddsmakers haven't traditionally been all that successful.

For instance, last year's winner, Abdulrazak Gurnah, wasn’t even on the list, and 2020's winner, Louise Glück, was given 25/1 odds.

At any rate, though, here are NicerOdds's top three picks, along with an assortment of other interesting names we pulled from Lit Hub's longer list. 

• Michel Houellebecq – 7/1

• Salman Rushdie – 8/1

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – 10/1

• Stephen King — 10/1

• Margaret Atwood — 16/1

• Don DeLillo — 20/1

• Edna O’Brien — 25/1

• Karl Ove Knausgård — 25/1

• Cormac McCarthy — 33/1

• Hilary Mantel — 33/1

• Marilynne Robinson — 33/1

• Martin Amis — 50/1

• Milan Kundera — 50/1

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