The betting has begun on this year’s selection for the Literature prize (though bear in mind that bookie’s favorites rarely prevail). Ladbroke’s has Oz at 4/1; Algerian novelist Assia Djebar at 5/1; Juan Goytisolo at 6/1; Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth at 7/1; Syrian poet Adonis at 8/1; and Thomas PynchonItalian scholar Claudio Magris, Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi and Haruki Murakami all at 9/1.Guardian
