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2 weeks agoAndrew Miller is bookies' favourite to win 2025 Booker prize
Andrew Miller is the bookmakers' favourite to win the 2025 Booker Prize at 6/4 for The Land in Winter.
Beyond the personal biases that can cloud judgment in these discussions, what do the betting houses say? According to Ladbrokes, the Chinese writer Can Xue and the Hungarian Laszlo Krasznahorkai are in the lead this year, followed by two Spanish-language authors, Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza and the Spaniard Enrique Vila-Matas, who are tied with the Australian Gerald Murnane, the Romanian Mircea Cartarescu, and the U.S. writer Thomas Pynchon.