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Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
The Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska has been described as a “Mozart of poetry”, her words falling into place with a veritable ease. She wrote around 400 poems during her lifetime, using common everyday images to reflect on larger truths about love, death and passing time. In 1996 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”

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Wisława Szymborska at the Swedish Academy.

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Nobel Prize Conversations
What are the benefits of creating a diverse laboratory? In this podcast episode, physicist Anne L’Huillier speaks about the importance of diversity and how she herself speaks and thinks in three languages. Also up for discussion are the consequences of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate. L’Huillier sees both the good and bad sides, including being a source of inspiration while having less time to write her new scientific textbook.
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Anne L’Huillier showing her Nobel Prize medal during a visit to the Nobel Foundation on 11 December 2023.

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Statement by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on the harsh and unjust sentencing of Narges Mohammadi

Nobel Peace Prize 2023
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has released a statement regarding the harsh and unjust sentencing of 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi by the Iranian Islamic Republic regime.

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Portrait of Narges Mohammadi

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Kristian Berg Harpviken will become the new Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He is currently Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). “I have worked with peace my entire life, so for me, this is the dream job,” says Dr Harpviken.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute serves as the secretariat for the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize since the very beginning in 1901.
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Kristian Berg Harpviken.

Photo: PRIO

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In memoriam

Canadian author Alice Munro passed away on 15 May 2024. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 with the motivation “master of the contemporary short story”.

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Roger Guillemin passade away on 21 February, age 100. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 for discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain.

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Physicist Herbert Kroemer passed away on 8 March 2024, age 95. He was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.

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