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SIX DAYS – SIX PRIZES

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison, one of the most
powerful storytellers of our time, “who in novels characterized by visionary
force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.”

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who helps to decide the Nobel Prize in Literature, about how the prize process
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FEATURED NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES IN LITERATURE

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SMUGGLED LITERATURE

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize lecture, in which he first coined the term
“Gulag Archipelago”, was smuggled out of the USSR on photographic film hidden in
the back of a transistor radio. Read a firsthand account of this story from the
cold war written by the courier himself. Solzhenitsyn didn’t arrive in Stockholm
to receive the prize until four years later, after he had been expelled from the
Soviet Union.
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“READ, READ, READ”

When asked about her most valuable words of advice, Nadine Gordimer, answered:
“Boringly, I always repeat; read, read, read, and don’t read the book coming in
a stream of words on a screen, don’t depend on that, which you now have in your
car and on your, god knows, your cell phone and everything. Please, just go to
the library and read.”

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THE UNIQUENESS OF EVERY FATE

“To enter Gurnah’s writing is to absorb the great oral narrative tradition’s
patterns and mythologies, conflated with the premise of the art of the novel:
the uniqueness of every fate.” This is how Abdulrazak Gurnah’s literature was
described during the 2021 Nobel Prize award ceremony. Get a taster of his
writing here.

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2022 NOBEL PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENTS

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FIVE DOCUMENTARIES INSPIRED BY THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

A team of female Yazidi deminers in Iraq attempting to clear their land of mines
left behind by ISIS. A team of scientists on an extraordinary mission in
Mozambique to help better our understanding of climate change. A man building
prosthetic legs to help victims of war walk again in South Sudan … All are
inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates.


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WHO CAN NOMINATE FOR A NOBEL PRIZE?

No person can nominate herself/himself for a Nobel Prize. But who can? And how
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WHO SELECTS THE LAUREATES?

In his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel specifically designated the
institutions responsible for the prizes he wished to be established.


EXPLORE THE NOMINATION ARCHIVE

Search among the names of the nominees and nominators, as well as additional
information about the nominations 1901-1966.


MAHATMA GANDHI – THE MISSING LAUREATE

Mohandas Gandhi has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th
century. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?


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THE BLOOD TYPING GAME

How much do you know about blood types? Did you know that human blood groups
were discovered by Nobel Prize laureate Karl Landsteiner in 1901?

Learn more about the way to find out about the human blood groups, blood typing
and the importance of safe blood transfusions. See if you can save the lives of
the patients in the game!
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Is it possible to train a dog to drool on command? Learn about conditioned
reflexes in this interactive game!

With this animated game, teachers are able to illustrate classical conditioning
in the classroom. The object of the game is to train Pavlov’s dog to respond to
a signal that it will associate with being fed.

In 1904, Ivan Pavlov was awarded with Nobel Prize for his pioneering studies of
how the digestive system works.


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PEACE BUILDERS

Step into the shoes of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and learn about the legacy
of Alfred Nobel in this immersive learning experience from the Nobel Peace
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Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Jody Williams and Carl von Ossietzky to
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ALFRED NOBEL'S LAST WILL

On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will in Paris, France. The
Swedish dynamite millionaire, who thought that his invention would end all wars,
had now realised that it was a very deadly product. Wanting to make amends, he
did what no man of such wealth had done before …


THE VERY FIRST NOBEL PRIZES

On 10 December 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, in physics, chemistry,
physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Read more about the first prizes.


ALFRED NOBEL – SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR

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IN MEMORIAM


FORMER SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV PASSES AWAY AT 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, died on 30 August. He
was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for the leading role he played in the
radical changes in East-West relations and for bringing the Cold War to a halt.


PEACE NEGOTIATOR DAVID TRIMBLE DIES AT 77

David Trimble passed away on 25 July. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize
together with John Hume for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the
conflict in Northern Ireland.


FULLERENE DISCOVERER ROBERT F. CURL JR. DIES

Robert F. Curl Jr. was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 for the
discovery of a new form of the element carbon, the fullerenes. He passed away on
3 July, age 88.


BEN R. MOTTELSON 1926‒2022

Physics laureate Ben R. Mottelson passed away on 13 May, age 95. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize “for the discovery of the connection between collective motion
and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the
structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”.

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