This year's Nobel prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting
the peace prize could go to Egypt's Maggie Gobran for helping Cairo's
poor, Afghan burka opponent Sima Samar or US scholar Gene Sharp.
The
first Nobel to be announced this year will be the medicine prize on
Monday, when the jury in Stockholm reveals the winner or winners around
11:30 am (0930 GMT.)
Like every year, most of the speculation in
the run-up to the announcements focuses on who will take home the
prestigious peace and literature prizes.
Betting sites have
become a popular feature of the guessing game in recent years, with
gamers sometimes curiously accurate amid suspicions of leaks from within
the award committees.
This year, Coptic Christian Gobran, dubbed
the "Mother Teresa" of Cairo's slums, tops the list of one betting site
for the peace prize, with 6.5-to-one odds ahead of the October 12
announcement.
But that race looks wide open this year with no clear frontrunner among the 231 nominees.
Although
the peace prize committee never discloses the nominees' names, former
US president Bill Clinton, ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl, the EU and
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning are known to be on the list.
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