The controversial world of Maria Ressa
When the Filipino news editor and journalist was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, not everyone was delighted with her triumph. In…
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Nobel Peace Prize winners hope award means protection from danger
Nobel Peace Prize winners Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov spoke of the dangers journalists face doing their job in their home countries at a press…
Nobel Literature Prize winner to visit Lillehammer next May
The Norwegian Literature Festival secures the attendance of 2021 Nobel Literature Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah next May. Just months after winning the prestigious 2021 Nobel Prize…
Norway and the “IG Nobel” Prizes
Forget the Nobel Prizes; the funnier IG Nobel Prizes were announced on September 21. Towards the end of every year, the IG Nobel awards garner…
Except Peace Prize in Oslo, all Nobels awarded in home countries this year
The Swedish Nobel Committee has decided, due to COVID restrictions, to present the winners of the various Nobel Prizes with their awards in their own…
Nobel Peace Prize winners in Norway: “It is incredibly exciting to be here”
The two winners landed in the VIP section of Oslo Airport on Wednesday afternoon. Co-Nobel Peace Prize winners Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa have both…
Scaled-down Nobel Peace Prize celebrations commence today in Oslo
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded this Friday at Oslo City Hall despite the latest outbreak of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Pandemic…
Filipino court approves Maria Ressa’s Norway trip for Nobel ceremony
An appeals court in the Philippines has granted Maria Ressa the right to travel to Oslo to collect her jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize despite…
Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa still doesn’t know whether she can travel to Oslo
One month after it became known that she won the Nobel Peace Prize, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa says that much in her life is still…
Three Nobel Prize winners awaited in Oslo in December
This year’s Peace Prize winners Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov are scheduled to be accompanied by last year’s winner when the Nobel Prize party kicks…
A short introduction to the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize winner: Refugee-turned-novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah (72) received this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. The former refugee writes, among other things, about colonialism and the fate of refugees….
Economics Nobel Prize awarded to three US-based researchers
David Card, Joshua D. Angrist, and Guido W. Imbens have been jointly awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel…
Who are Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, the winners of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize?
Read on for an introduction to the two journalists who have just won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Meet Maria Ressa Maria Ressa is a…
Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
The leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, has announced that journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov are this year’s recipients of the Nobel…
Abdulrazak Gurnah receives the Nobel Prize in Literature
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar. He arrived in England as a refugee…
2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to two scientists for work on molecule construction
Benjamin List from Germany and David MacMillan from the USA have received this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The researchers are honored “for the development…
Three scientists awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for climate-related research
Scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi have received this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. The three researchers have been jointly honored for research…
What you need to know about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize
Read on for all of the key facts – including an overview of the candidates – about the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Fast facts 2021’s…
American researchers David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine
American researchers David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have received this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine. The scientists have been awarded for the discovery of receptors…
Due to the pandemic, this year’s Nobel Prizes will be sent by post
The corona outbreak has restricted travel and gatherings. That’s why this year’s Nobel Celebration will go digital, while medals and diplomas will be sent by…
