Chinese writer Can Xue, favorite in betting houses to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Chinese writer Can Xue has positioned itself as the main favorite of the betting houses to win the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2024which the Swedish Academy will fail this Thursday, October 10, in a list in which once again no Spanish option appears among the favorites.

Can Xue, who repeats as favorite after doing so in the last two years, has a quota of 4.5 euros for every euro bet to win the Nobel. The Australian is followed as the main favorites on the list Gerald Murnanewith a fee of thirteen euros for each euro bet, and the Japanese Haruki Murakamiwith a fee of 15 euros, winner of the Princess of Asturias of Literature.

The list of favorites is extensive and includes names such as the Greek poet Ersi Sotiropoulosthe Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Attwood o Salman Rushdie.

As has happened in recent years, After the death of Javier Marías, the Spanish options to win the Nobel Prize for Literature have become blurred. However, the Argentine César Aira does appear among the bets for authors in Spanish.

To date, 116 Nobel Prizes have been awarded in this category and eleven of them have gone to writers in the Spanish language.. Of these more than a hundred awards, only 17 have been for women. Ruyard Kipling is the youngest winner of this award (41 years old) and Doris Lessing the oldest (88 years old).

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature include Jon Fosse (2023), Annie Ernaux (2022), Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021), Louise Glück (2020, United States), Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke (joint edition, after not being awarded in 2018), Kazuo Ishiguro (2017, United Kingdom), Bob Dylan (2016, United States), Svetlana Aleksievich (2015, Belarus), Patrick Modiano (2014, France), Alice Munro (2013, Canada), Mo Yan (2012 , China), Tomas Transtrmer (2011, Sweden) or Mario Vargas Llosa (2010, Peru).