Norway's Petterson bags 100,000 euro book prize
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"Out Stealing Horses", which had already won the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, as "a poignant and moving tale ... of nostalgia for a simpler way of life."  Norwegian author Per Petterson and his translator Anne Born won the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction in English on Thursday for the novel "Out Stealing Horses". Petterson collected ... via Reuters
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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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Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:
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An American and a Norwegian won the Nobel prize in economics for research into how new technologies and financial "shocks" play a role in booms and recessions.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari  Maathai said Friday she had been told by a Norwegian diplomat  that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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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.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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Nominations close for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, and among the entrants is a 98-year-old Briton who saved 700 Czech-Jewish children from the Nazis.
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One winner was lecturing in Norway when he found out. The other was sleeping in Arizona. Finn Kydland of Norway and American Edward Prescott -- colleagues since the 1970s -- learned Monday they had won the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics.
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The authors of a banned book that accuses Chinese communist officials of mistreating peasants have been awarded a 50,000 euro (US$61,500) journalism prize by a Germany-based group.
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - A Norwegian and an American won the 2004 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their work illustrating how the world&#39;s money supply affects international trade.
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An American and a Norwegian won the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences yesterday for research on how government policies affect economies and why supply-side shocks like high oil prices can dampen business cycles.
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Steffen Iversen&#39;s penalty in the 55th minute lifted Norway to a 1-0 victory Saturday over Scotland in their Group 5 World Cup qualifying group.
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Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward  Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize  Monday for research that laid the groundwork for more  independent central banks and explained business cycles.
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Reclusive Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek received her Nobel literature prize at the Swedish embassy in Vienna on Friday, as a "social phobia" illness has kept her from traveling to Stockholm.
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Schibsted, which owns the biggest-selling tabloid in Norway, is now the biggest player on the Internet in Norway and neighboring Sweden.
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An American and a Norwegian economist were awarded the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for their efforts to demonstrate that innovative new technologies and shocks, such as a sharp increase