Nobelist's youth Â drama with questions
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The tale of how Mario Capecchi, this year's Nobel medicine laureate, survived heartbreak and poverty in wartime Italy to go on to academic glory in America inspired the world in a way that resonated beyond his scientific triumphs.
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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Until this morning, not many non-Germans knew that a woman called Elfriede Jelinek existed. This state of unknowing underwent a dramatic change with an oracular announcement: The Nobel Prize in Literature
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In awarding this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to a Kenyan environmentalist, the Norwegian Nobel Committee admitted it had stretched the definition of an award that its founder, Alfred Nobel, said should go to the person who does the most to promote peace
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The 2004 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating that women writers, long overlooked by the Swedish Academy which each year awards the prize, could be well-placed to take home the honours.
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NEW YORK -- Readers are eager to learn more about Austriaâs Elfriede Jelinek, who was virtually unknown in the United States before the announcement that she had received the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Environment Deputy Minister Wangari Maathai (age 64) of Kenya was chosen for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Ole Danbolt Mjos, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee which is composed of five members, announced
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Violence, sexuality and gender politics dominate the controversial writing of Elfriede Jelinek, winner of this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Literature.
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In a tradition that has become as venerable as the 103-year-old Nobel Prizes themselves, the guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards this week has entered full swing.
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The decision by the five-member Nobel Committee to award this year's Nobel Peace Prize to an environmental activist prompted some prominent Norwegians to criticize the selection, saying the effectiveness of the ...
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Vienna, October 8: Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek fears that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature will turn her into something she never wanted to be -- a celebrity.
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When Muhammad Yunus travels to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, he will come prepared to fight for management control over a company he believes is sucking profits from the poor of Bangladesh.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - In a tradition that has become as venerable as the 103-year-old Nobel Prizes themselves, the guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards this week has entered full swing.    The first announcement of 2004 winners comes Monday with the physiology or medicine prize, followed by a week of announcements of winners for physics, chemistry, economics, peace and possibly literature...
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The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Elfriede Jelinek &quot;for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society&#39;s clichÃ©s and their subjugating power
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The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Oct. 12, the Swedish Academy said Friday, keeping the literay world guessing for nearly another week.Comment
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Alfred Nobel created the peace prize more than a century ago, but it is the Norwegian Nobel Committee that decides who gets it.
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The Nobel Prize in physics is like a scientific riddle: speculation about who could win equals the sheer complexity of the work examined for the coveted award.