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“Room 406, the Pablo Neruda affair”, investigation into the death of the Nobel Prize for Literature
On September 23, 1973, the writer Pablo Neruda died suddenly in a clinic in Santiago, Chile. Twelve days after Pinochet’s coup d’état, this death of the Nobel Prize winner for…
Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize winner, acquitted again of tax evasion
Filipino journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa was acquitted on Tuesday September 12 in Manila of the last charge of tax evasion for which she was being prosecuted.…
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature
Born in 1934, Wole Soyinka was the first writer from the African continent to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Author of theater, poetry, memoirs, essays, and short…
The PR expert “Does the Nobel Foundation even have any PR people?”
The Nobel Foundation makes a U-turn after the storm of criticism – Russia’s ambassador is now being carried from the award ceremony in the Konserthuset in Stockholm.The PR expert is…
Nobel Committee: Russia wants to silence Muratov
full screen Peace Prize laureate and press freedom activist Dmitrij Muratov. Archive image. Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/TT Russia is trying to silence 2021 peace prize winner Dimitrij Muratov by branding him…
Even the Norwegian Nobel should port Russia
Updated 14:25 | Published at 2:08 p.m full screenNatalya Pintyuk (representing her husband, the activist Ales Byalyatski from Belarus), Jan Ratjnskij (from Russian Memorial) and Oleksandra Matvijtyuk (from the Ukrainian…
Flash decision from the Nobel Foundation! Russia, Belarus and Iran will not participate in Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Foundation announced that the decision to invite Russia, Belarus and Iran to the Nobel Prize Ceremony to be held on December 10 was withdrawn. THE FOUNDATION CHANGED ITS…
Faced with outcry, the Nobel Foundation gives up inviting the Russian, Belarusian and Iranian ambassadors
While it had initially assumed its choice to invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to its next prize-giving ceremony, the Nobel Foundation is backtracking. The committee indicates, in…
The king is waiting – will soon make a decision about the Nobel ceremony
After massive criticism and several boycotts from, among others, three Swedish party leaders and Ukraine’s ambassador, the Nobel Foundation is now backing away from the decision to invite all ambassadors.…
Marcus Oscarsson: “Risk of the Nobel Festival collapsing”
This week, the Nobel Foundation announced that the ambassadors of Russia, Iran and Belarus will be invited to this year’s award ceremony, something that has stirred emotions not least among…