Odds from
William Hill:
* Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children 1981) 6/4
* Pat Barker (The Ghost Road 1995) 3/1
* Peter Carey (Oscar And Lucinda 1988) 4/1
* J M Coetzee (Disgrace 1999) 5/1
* Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist 1974) 8/1
* J G Farrell (The Seige Of Krishnapur 1973) 10/1
Huh. I thought Salman Rushdie might go odds-on.
Midnight's Children should win but stranger things have happened.