Doris Lessingâs Nobel Prize
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The unpredictable curmudgeon has written about everything from feminism to sci-fi to cats (twice).
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NPR.org, October 7, 2004 Â· Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, becoming only the ninth woman to receive the honor.
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Elfriede Jelinek, known best for her autobiographical novel turned movie, The Piano Teacher, won the Nobel Prize for Literature this Thursday for her in-depth plays and novels covering subjects on violence on women, sexuality and European politics.
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Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were "not that terrible" when compared with attacks by the IRA in Britain
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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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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - American researchers Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their work on the sense of smell - showing how, for example, a person can smell a lilac in the spring and recall it in the winter...
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Two US scientists yesterday won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for genetic studies explaining how the sense of smell works.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant  millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Pitt alumnae Wangari Muta Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, making her the first African woman to receive the award.
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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize today for her work as leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa.
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek is awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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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It could be tiny fibers that may one day replace steel, or catalysts that have led to environmentally friendly plastics. Guessing the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry has often stumped researchers and pundits alike.
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OSLO  - More women need to do jobs where they take decisions if they are to play a role in peace-making, this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, said in Oslo a day before receiving the prestigious award.
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Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960:
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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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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian novelist and playwright, has won the Nobel Prize in literature -- the first woman in eight years to be awarded the prize.