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OSLO: Bookies have Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as the name to beat ahead of Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement, although experts say Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed or a representative of the free press are more likely.
If one is to trust online betting sites like Ladbrokes, the favourite is 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who has already received Amnesty International's top honour and the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes dubbed the "Alternative Nobel".
"The only way I could see that happen is that she would be part of a shared prize like Malala," Urdal said, referring to Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, who shared the 2014 prize - at age 17 - with Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi.
Late Thursday, Norwegian broadcaster NRK put little faith in the idea, reporting that while "Bookmakers bet on Greta Thunberg, the Nobel Committee won't".
Broadly considered a controversial long shot, US President Donald Trump has nonetheless been mentioned for his efforts to mend old wounds with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Last year, the award - consisting of a gold medal, a diploma, and nine million Swedish kronor - was given to two champions fighting sexual violence, Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad. On Thursday, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm gave the 2019 Nobel Literature Prize to Austrian author Peter Handke.
The Economics Prize will wrap up the 2019 Nobel prize season on Oct 14.
The Nobel archives are a treasure trove of trivia, with the list of nominees for each year only revealed 50 years on.
The Nobel prize in literature is usually awarded in the same week as the science medals, so this year's delay has got tongues wagging.
Studying the betting might seem like a mug's game, but analysis from Ladbrokes has shown that over the last 10 years the last-minute favourite has taken the prize four times, while 91% of the time the winner has had odds of 10/1 or less when betting was suspended.
Welcome to our live coverage of the Nobel prize in literature 2016.
Welcome to the final flush of this year's Nobel season when the sixth and last medal of 2016 will be awarded to "The person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction ..." Or that was the intention of the 19th-century industrialist Alfred Nobel, who endowed the award from a fortune made from weapons and explosives.
Each prize this year is worth 8m Swedish krona or £744,000, and we will be here to record who will be the 113th writer to receive this eye-watering sum, and the accompanying starburst of literary celebrity, at 12noon BST. Judging by the last couple of years the person who is least likely to have picked the winner is the winner him- or herself.
The Nobel prize in literature is usually awarded in the same week as the science medals, so this year's delay has got tongues wagging.
The prize that year eventually went to Harold Pinter, though Pamuk went on to take in the following year.
Studying the betting might seem like a mug's game, but analysis from Ladbrokes has shown that over the last 10 years the last-minute favourite has taken the prize four times, while 91% of the time the winner has had odds of 10/1 or less when betting was suspended.
Welcome to our live coverage of the Nobel prize in literature 2016.
Welcome to the final flush of this year's Nobel season when the sixth and last medal of 2016 will be awarded to "The person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction ..." Or that was the intention of the 19th-century industrialist Alfred Nobel, who endowed the award from a fortune made from weapons and explosives.
Each prize this year is worth 8m Swedish krona or £744,000, and we will be here to record who will be the 113th writer to receive this eye-watering sum, and the accompanying starburst of literary celebrity, at 12noon BST. Judging by the last couple of years the person who is least likely to have picked the winner is the winner him- or herself.
The Nobel prize in literature is usually awarded in the same week as the science medals, so this year's delay has got tongues wagging.
The prize that year eventually went to Harold Pinter, though Pamuk went on to take in the following year.
Studying the betting might seem like a mug's game, but analysis from Ladbrokes has shown that over the last 10 years the last-minute favourite has taken the prize four times, while 91% of the time the winner has had odds of 10/1 or less when betting was suspended.
Welcome to our live coverage of the Nobel prize in literature 2016.
Welcome to the final flush of this year's Nobel season when the sixth and last medal of 2016 will be awarded to "The person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction ..." Or that was the intention of the 19th-century industrialist Alfred Nobel, who endowed the award from a fortune made from weapons and explosives.
Each prize this year is worth 8m Swedish krona or £744,000, and we will be here to record who will be the 113th writer to receive this eye-watering sum, and the accompanying starburst of literary celebrity, at 12noon BST. Judging by the last couple of years the person who is least likely to have picked the winner is the winner him- or herself.
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