Nobel prize winning author Naguib Mahfouz dies
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the   only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,   died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.
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British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.
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Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon turned  Nobel Peace prize winner who ended up isolated and locked in  renewed conflict with Israel, died in France on Thursday, his  dream of a Palestinian state unfulfilled. He was 75.
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Maurice Wilkins, 88, a Nobel Prize winner whose role in discovering the double helix structure of DNA has been overshadowed by more-celebrated colleagues for the past half-century, died Oct. 5 in a London hospital.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies in hospital in northern France  aged 69, family friends say.
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On October 25th, 1962, author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
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British novelist Doris Lessing will  receive her Nobel prize for literature on Wednesday, having  been unable to attend the prize ceremony in Sweden last year  due to ill health.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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One of India's best known novelists and short-story writers, Mulk Raj Anand,  dies at the age of 99.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag, one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to US policies after the September 11 attacks, has died at the age of 71.
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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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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to American Roger Kornberg for his work on protein synthesis.
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The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to Roger Kornberg for work on protein synthesis.
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Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon turned  Nobel Peace Prize winner who ended up isolated and locked in  renewed conflict with Israel, died on Thursday, his dream of a  Palestinian state unfulfilled. He was 75.
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Scientists yesterday mourned Maurice Wilkins, sometimes called the forgotten man of DNA, who died in hospital on Tuesday aged 88. Wilkins, a professor at King&#39;s College London, shared the 1962 Nobel prize
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A top Indian nuclear scientist and the scientific mastermind behind the country&#39;s first atomic test, has died in the western city of Bombay (Mumbai).
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died on Tuesday (October 5), Kings College London announced on Wednesday.