Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ukrainian, Russian & Belarusian campaigners
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The recipients of the award are human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. According to the Committe, Bialiatski was one of the initiators of the democracy movement that emerged in Belarus in the mid-1980s.
French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
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"In her writing, Ernaux consistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class. Her path to authorship was long and arduous," the Swedish academy said in a statement on Thursday. Ernauz, 82, will get the prize money of ten million Swedish crowns ($914704).
Three scientists share 2022 Nobel Chemistry Prize
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Sharpless and Meldal have laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry, click chemistry, in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently, Xinhua news agency reported.Bertozzi has taken click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms, the academy said in a statement.
Salman Rushdie could be first Indian-born writer since Tagore to win Nobel prize for literature
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Rushdie, whose work includes the bestselling and controversial novel 'The Satanic Verses', was stabbed in the neck and torso as he was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state on August 12, The Guardian reported. This year's prize will be announced on Thursday and it goes to "the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction".
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai weds PCB official  
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Malala, who at age 17 became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate, became a global celebrity when an assassination attempt was made on her in 2012 in retaliation for her activism when she was only 15. A bullet pierced her head and she was flown from Pakistan to Birmingham in a critical condition.
Economics Nobel goes to US researchers for insights into labour market dynamics
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While Card, 65, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, will get half of the 10 mn Swedish kronor ($1.14 mn) prize amount, the other half will be shared between Angrist, 61, the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Filipino, Russian journalists awarded Nobel Peace Prize 2021
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Announcing the coveted prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said it chose Ressa, the founder and chief of Rappler, digital media company for investigative journalism, and Muratov, the founder of Russian daily Novaya Gazeta, for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, "which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace."
Abdulrazak Gurnah conferred Nobel Prize for Literature 2021
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Announcing the award - the first to a non-European writer since Japan-born Kazuo Ishiguro in 2017 - the Swedish Academy cited his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".
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