‘War crimes justified as fight against fascism’: Nobel Peace Prize winners denounce Ukraine invasion

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, in what it claimed was a special operation to demilitarise and ‘de-Nazify’ the east European country.

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· Dec 11, 2022 · 11:20 am

Three US-based economists win Nobel Prize for their work on banks and financial crisis

The award was presented to Ben S Bernanke, Douglas W Diamond, and Philip H Dybvig.

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· Oct 10, 2022 · 03:57 pm

Nobel Prize winner for Literature Annie Ernaux’s true art is the deconstruction of memory

Writing memory for Ernaux is double-edged: she recovers what shall serve as proof of her humiliation.

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

· Oct 07, 2022 · 08:30 am

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to French author Annie Ernaux

She is known for her autobiographical works that touch upon themes of gender equality and class disparities.

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· Oct 06, 2022 · 04:54 pm

Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Pääbo ‘for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution’.

Love Dalén, The Conversation

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Anders Götherström, The Conversation

· Oct 04, 2022 · 07:30 pm

Should Salman Rushdie get the Nobel Prize for literature in 2022?

After the attempt to murder him in August 2022, several writers and critics believe the time is ripe for the award that has long eluded him.

R Raj Rao

· Sep 24, 2022 · 08:30 am

Nobel Peace Prize for journalists is a reminder that press freedom is under threat worldwide

The threats to free expression are especially insidious as they do not come just from the usual suspects.

Kathy Kiely, The Conversation

· Oct 10, 2021 · 07:30 pm

Nobel Peace Prize: How brave journalists like Maria Ressa expand freedoms for everyone

A tribute to the journalist from the Philippines, who will share this year’s prize with Dmitry Muratov of Russia.

Salil Tripathi

· Oct 09, 2021 · 09:00 am

Why Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature is important

The 73-year-old writer represents both a post-colonial African sensibility and an Islamic interiority.

Bhakti Shringarpure

· Oct 09, 2021 · 08:30 am

The most influential climate science paper of all time that won a Nobel prize in physics

Syukuro Manabe’s work goes down in history as the first robust estimate of how much the world would warm if carbon dioxide concentrations double.

Piers Forster, The Conversation

· Oct 08, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

Ressa and Muratov received the award for their work to ‘safeguard freedom of expression’, the award committee said.

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· Oct 08, 2021 · 03:09 pm

Reading Nobel Prize for Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: First lines from seven novels

Gurnah, 73, was born in Zanzibar and lives in England. He writes in English.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

· Oct 08, 2021 · 09:51 am