Social critic tenth woman to win Nobel
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The latest Nobel Prize laureate for literature is a self-described advocate for the weak, whose own &quot;social phobia&quot; will keep her from attending the awards ceremony in Stockholm.
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The Nobel prize for literature has this year been awarded to the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek. The Swedish Academy, which has given the award to a European nine times in the last
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Wangari Maathai of Kenya won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions in Africa, said the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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Nobel Peace show host Oprah Winfrey smiles in the Oslo Town Hall where Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya is to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Friday, Dec. 10, 2004.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, who launched a powerful grass-roots environmental movement nearly 30 years ago by planting trees in her backyard, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for work that also involved empowering women and fighting government corruption.
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Calling humanity a threat to the planet,  Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged democratic reform  and an end to corporate greed after becoming the first African  woman to collect the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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Describing her as &quot;Africa&#39;s staunchest defender of the environment,&quot; the United Nations green agency today hailed the awarding of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to Prof.
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Bianca Jagger of Nicaragua was awarded an honor known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize" on Thursday for her work to promote human rights and social justice.
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Environmental activist and deputy minister of Kenya, Wangri Maathai, won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first African lady to obtain this rare honour.
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Nobel literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek said on Thursday she could not receive the prize in person because she had "social phobia," while criticizing Austria in a testimony to her love-hate relationship with ...
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek, 57, won the Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday, citing her ability to reveal "the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power."   The decision to award the prize to a woman - and a poet - was the first since 1996, when Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won. Since the prize was first handed out in 1901, only nine women have won it...
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Special to the Journal-World. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize is remembered fondly by the nuns who taught her in Atchison.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, received her award Friday to the beat of drums and
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist, today became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize. Ms Maathai, 64, Kenya&#39;s deputy environment minister, heads the Green Belt movement, a group that
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Oslo - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004 on Friday at a ceremony in Oslo, making her the first African woman and first environmentalist to receive the prestigious award.
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A Kenyan environmental activist whose children graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today.