Who Will Win The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025?

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, October 9. Emily Temple consulted the UK betting site NicerOdds to find out who the bookies think will take home the biggest prize in international letters: 

Gerald Murnane – 5/1
László Krasznahorkai – 6/1
Cristina Rivera Garza – 9/1
Haruki Murakami – 11/1
Mircea Cărtărescu – 11/1
Thomas Pynchon – 11/1
Can Xue – 14/1
Enrique Vila-Matas – 14/1
Michel Houellebecq – 14/1
Alexis Wright – 17/1
Jamaica Kincaid – 17/1
Salman Rushdie – 17/1
Anne Carson – 19/1
César Aira – 19/1
Carl Frode Tiller – 19/1
Colm Tóibín – 19/1
Ersi Sotiropoulos – 19/1
Péter Nádas – 19/1
Pierre Michon – 19/1
Raul Zúrita – 19/1
Karl Ove Knausgaard – 21/1
Helle Helle – 24/1
Isabel Allende – 24/1
Ko Un – 24/1
Milton Hatoum – 24/1
Yoko Tawada – 24/1
Elena Poniatowska – 29/1
Homero Aridjis – 29/1
Joyce Carol Oates – 29/1
Ludmila Ulitskaja – 29/1
Margaret Atwood – 34/1
Paul Simon – 49/1
Stephen King – 49/1

My patriotic favourite, who has piled up some extraordinary writing over the course of her career, is Margaret Atwood. I am also partial to Haruki Murakami, although I have only made it through a fraction of his work.

(Literary Hub)