- Paddy Power: They have Cormac McCarthy (9/2) just ahead of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (11/2), with Don DeLillo and Murakami Haruki at 6/1, then Assia Djebar (8/1) ahead of Philip Roth (10/1). Despite only offering 18 authors to bet on, Bob Dylan does make the list too (at 100/1 -- but, hey, he's also a finalist for what may well be the second most prestigious international author prize, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, nominated by Andrea De Carlo ...).
- BetUS: Offers almost the same (if slightly smaller) line-up and similar odds to Paddy Power, at least near the top. Among the differences: Philip Roth fares much worse here (so if you're money is on him, you'd prefer these odds).
- Victor Chandler offers the longest list and most interesting (and by and large best (for the punter) odds). While Cormac McCarthy again leads the way (but you get 7/1 here), Tahar ben Jelloun and Gerald Murnane join Murakami, Ngũgĩ, and Ko Un at 8/1.
While on the whole the list is familiar (from Ladbrokes, last year) they also do throw a few new names into the mix -- notably Witi Ihimaera (yeah, okay, like with Fuentes they spell his name wrong ...), Brian Castro, and Kate Grenville (yeah, that down-under contingent seems to have been particularly influential here at VC -- though they missed C.K.Stead ...).