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Placing Bets On The Nobel Prize In Literature 2011: Cormac McCarthy Is The Front Runner

First Posted: 07/01/11 08:30 AM ET Updated: 08/31/11 06:12 AM ET

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True, there are only roughly 100 days left until they announce who gets the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, but it's pretty early in the season for the rumor mills to be spinning -- and for the bookies to be taking bets.

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True, there are only roughly 100 days left until they announce who gets the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, but it's pretty early in the season for the rumor mills to be spinning -- and for the bookie...
True, there are only roughly 100 days left until they announce who gets the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, but it's pretty early in the season for the rumor mills to be spinning -- and for the bookie...
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donnyraindog
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05:05 PM on 07/04/2011
William Trevor the greatest writer at creating characters of the last 50 years or Milan Kundera the most under rated of post modern writers of ideas!
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Leviathan21
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03:36 PM on 07/01/2011
Long overdue:

Salman Rushdie
Margaret Atwood
Philip Roth
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John David Redux
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12:04 PM on 07/06/2011
Philip Roth will never win a Nobel Prize.
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BuckyJamesDio
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01:29 PM on 07/01/2011
The way the Nobels have been handed out in recent years, I'm gonna go with Bristol Palin for her wrenching and powerful memoir outlining her tumultuous and epic life experiences.

Yes, that was sarcasm.
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ptrgamb
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11:32 AM on 07/01/2011
How about Alice Munro?
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Wookiee1972
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02:29 PM on 07/01/2011
Just as long as its not Atwood.
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John David Redux
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12:03 PM on 07/06/2011
It will never be Atwood.
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