Nobel in literature to be announced Oct 12
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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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Stockholm takes center-stage on Dec. 10, when the Nobel committee awards its prestigious prizes for chemistry, medicine, physics, economics and literature.
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The Nobel Prize in physics is like a scientific riddle: speculation about who could win equals the sheer complexity of the work examined for the coveted award.
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Every year for more than 20 years, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded a Nobel Prize for physics. And every year, Frank Wilczek has looked forward to the announcement with a mixture of excitement and dread.
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For only the ninth time in the 103-year history of the Nobel Prize, the award for literature has gone to a woman. Elfriede Jelinek was commended for her frequent critiques of consumerism and the subjugation of women.
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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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More than 140 books were unveiled on  Monday as candidates for one of the world's richest literary  awards.
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Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott will share the $US1.36 million Nobel prize for economics. Their 1977 research on the &quot;time consistency problem&quot; described how policy makers often
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek is awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Dates for announcements of the 2004 Nobel Prizes. All winners except for the peace prize will be announced in Stockholm, Sweden. The peace prize will be announced in Oslo, Norway.
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The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced on Thursday, the Swedish Academy has said, with Stockholm's literary circles speculating over a slew of names for this year's winner including Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey are to host the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Norway on Saturday. Joss Stone and Andrea Bocelli will sing at the event in honour of this year&#39;s peace prize winner, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, 64.
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Two US researchers yesterday shared the Â£760,000 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their discovery of the molecular machinery behind the scent of lilac in the spring, the bouquet of a vintage burgundy or the smell of napalm in the morning.
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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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Speculation on who will win the Nobel Peace Prize has been hotly focused on the battle against one of the great threats to world peace: weapons of mass destruction.
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Columbia University professor Richard Axel will share the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine with Linda Buck of Seattle&#39;s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for their work on smell.
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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.