Sofie prize to Goran Persson
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Former Swedish Prime Minister Gran Persson has been awarded the tenth annual Sofie prize for his environmental efforts.Comment
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08.2004. Last night, Scotland&#39;s Franz Ferdinand picked up the prestigious 2004 Nationwide Mercury Prize for its debut self-titled LP in a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House hotel in Central London.
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The Swedish Academy announced yesterday that it has awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature to novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek.
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The 2004 Nobel winners for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics were officially handed their awards in Stockholm by King Carl XVI Gustaf on Friday.
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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.
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Sven-Goran Eriksson says he would like to coach Brazil or Sweden in the future.
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Two winners of the Forward Prize for Poetry have previous successes in the competition.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm announced the winners, who each receive one million Swedish Crowns (approximately 110,000), in Stockholm yesterday.
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Stars of the Eurovision Song Contest from the last 50 years are to compete to be named all-time greats.
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Local favorite Thomas Johansson upset top seed Andre Agassi 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 to win the Stockholm Open title on Sunday. Johansson, the Australian Open titlist in 2002, had lost
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The 24-year-old edged out Arsenal&#39;s Thierry Henry and AC Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko to the prize. &quot;Just to be here brings me great joy.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Sweden was awarded a victory over Denmark in a European Championship qualifier Saturday after a Danish fan tried to attack the referee for awarding a late penalty kick.
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Peter Forsberg signs with MoDo of the Swedish Elite League while Rick Nash and Joe Thornton have an auspicious debut with HC Davos of the Swiss Elite League.
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Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard felt Sweden striker Henrik Larsson made a &quot;great impact&quot; by scoring against his former club Celtic in Tuesday&#39;s 3-1 Champions League Group F win at Parkhead.
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Sweden thrash Iceland 5-0 in Stockholm helped by two goals from Marcus Allback.
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The King of Sweden was not there and the circumstances were a bit short of pompous, but 15 intrepid scientists attained a modicum of fame last week as this year&#39;s winners of coveted Ig Nobel Prizes.
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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...