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November 24, 2006
"Nothing comes too late for he who is able to wait" was apparently Alexander Solzhenitsyn's reaction to the news that the first full collection of his works is finally to be published in his native Russia. Now 87, the author was too frail to attend a ceremony in Moscow last week where his wife, Natalya, presented the first three volumes to reporters. How times have changed; follow the link below to read how Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture had to be smuggled out of the USSR.
This November edition of our newsletter comes to you in the brief lull between last month’s 2006 Nobel Prize announcements and the arrival of the Laureates in Stockholm and Oslo in early December to receive their awards. During the festivities, Nobelprize.org will be keeping you in touch with all the main events, providing live coverage of the Nobel Lectures and the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies, interviews with the Laureates, and even an insider's view of the fabled Nobel Banquet.
As ever, we invite you to comment on any aspect of our content, so please e-mail us at editor@nobelprize.org.
Adam Smith
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SOLZHENITSYN'S SECRET COURIER
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, in which he first coined the term "Gulag Archipelago", was smuggled out of the USSR on photographic film hidden in the back of a transistor radio. Read a first hand account of this story from the cold war written by the courier himself, Stig Fredrikson.
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KNOW YOUR 2006 NOBEL LAUREATES?
The work awarded ranges from molecular machines to the Big Bang, and from microcredit to macroeconomics, but how many of the recipients can you name? Get up to speed on this year's crop with our one page summary of the 2006 Nobel Prizes.
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"... BECAUSE VIOLENCE DOESN’T WORK"
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire were jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their part in fostering the peace movement in Northern Ireland. In a newly-recorded interview for Nobelprize.org, Mairead Corrigan Maguire talks about how her work began, what the Nobel Peace Prize meant to her and what it can do for peace, and reveals her thoughts on a lasting solution to the Northern Ireland troubles.
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THIS BOOK IS ABOUT FATE …
Orhan Pamuk, this year's Nobel Laureate in Literature, has always lived in Istanbul. In fact he has always lived in the same building. In a short excerpt from Istanbul: Memories of a City, published in 2005, Pamuk describes his relationship with his home town, and the hold it exercises over him.
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RELIVE THE MOMENT
Nobelprize.org records brief interviews with all the Nobel Laureates immediately after they hear the news that they have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Most of this year's Laureates, being Americans, were in bed when they got the call, but Craig Mello was up checking his daughter's blood sugar when the phone rang.
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MILTON FRIEDMAN DIES AT 94
Among the best known of economists, his work laid many of the foundation stones for the findings of this year's Prize Laureate in Economics, Edmund Phelps. Discover Friedman's life story, written in his own words, through his official autobiography.
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EXPERIENCE A FLAVOUR OF THE NOBEL BANQUET
Every December 10th, on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, 1,300 people gather in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall to honour the year's Laureates. Take a photo tour of the event.
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