The definitive guide to The Nobel Prizes
The awards bequeathed to the world by Alfred Nobel in 1896 have set the benchmark for scientific and literary development ever since. All the latest news from the Swedish and Norwegian Committees is gathered here.
New Nobel Center set for Stockholm waterfront
A landmark private donation has allowed plans to move forward for a new Nobel Center in the Swedish capital that will offer more space for both visitors and researchers alike than the current location in Stockholm's Gamla Stan. READ () »
China's Mo Yan releases new book on Nobel win
Chinese Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan released a new novel on Friday, detailing his trip to Sweden where he picked up his Nobel Prize in December. READ () »
DNA pioneer's Nobel prize put up for auction
The 1962 Nobel prize of Francis Crick, who helped discover the structure of DNA, has been put up for auction by his family along with other memorabilia. READ () »
What to study at Stockholm University
Stockholm’s reputation for academic excellence and its long background in English language education makes it an ideal choice for foreign students looking to gain extra qualifications overseas. READ () »
Forgotten speech fails to mar Nobel banquet
Royals, laureates, and diplomats were among the more than 1,300 guests that feted the 2012 Nobel Prizes at Stockholm's City Hall on an evening when not even a forgotten speech by literature winner Mo Yan could dampen high spirits. READ () »
Nobel Prize ceremony concludes in Stockholm
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf has handed over this year's prizes to the Nobel laureates at Stockholm's Concert Hall, watched over by more than 1,500 honoured guests. READ () »
Volunteers shore up a glitch-free Nobel evening
Student union representative Hilda Dalman is one of the many volunteers who will make sure this evening's Nobel Prize ceremony and the ensuing lavish banquet are carried off without a glitch. READ () »
Fashion and food in focus at Nobel banquet
The annual Nobel banquet in Stockholm is an exercise in culinary creativity, fashion, and logistics, as staff try to get more than 1,300 starters to tables in a stately hall filled with some of Sweden's best dressed and most influential people. READ () »
Nobel etiquette breached for monolingual Mo Yan
Nobel organizers have made a special exception to stringent seating rules for Monday's gala banquet in Stockholm, allowing 2012 literature laureate Mo Yan and his wife sit together because they both only speak Chinese. READ () »
Mo Yan: no author is liked by all of his readers
During his Nobel literature lecture in Stockholm on Friday, Chinese writer Mo Yan acknowledged the controversy surrounding his nomination, urging critics to read his books. READ () »
US plaintiff 'unknown': Nobel assembly
The Swedish assembly that awards the Nobel Medicine Prize said on Friday it had never heard of the man who sued the group in the United States alleging the assembly wrongly credited this year's laureates for his pioneering stem cell research. READ () »
Stem cell scientist sues Nobel Prize for medicine
A stem cell research pioneer is suing the Swedish assembly that awards the Nobel medicine prize, in a first such lawsuit, over claims it made about this year's winners, a spokeswoman said Thursday. READ () »
Mo Yan to avoid politics at Nobel awards
This year's Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan heads to Sweden on Wednesday to accept his award, however the Chinese author will likely try to avoid mentioning jailed fellow laureate Liu Xiaobo in his acceptance speech. READ () »
Stockholm University: A very Nobel institution
Stockholm University and its associates probably have a closer link with the Nobel Prize than any other educational institute in the world. To explain why requires a look back into the history of Sweden and its capital. READ () »
Swedish author Knut Ahnlund dies
Swedish author Knut Ahnlund, a member of the Swedish Academy that awards the Nobel Literature Prize and who was known for boycotting proceedings after Iran's fatwa against Salman Rushdie, has died aged 89. READ () »
Nobel laureate slams Mo Yan literature award
Herta Mueller, a past winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature has accused the 2012 laureate, China's Mo Yan, of celebrating censorship" and described him as a "catastrophe". READ () »
Nobel academy member 'friends with Mo Yan'
The relationship between this year’s Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, and academy member and translator Göran Malmqvist is much closer than previously believed, raising questions about a possible conflict of interest in the decision. READ () »
Sweden climbs world universities' top rank and file
With policies changing on charging foreign students in Sweden, there is greater need for the country's universities to build on their already glowing international reputations. Some of the most helpful indicators of academic excellence are the various international university rankings. READ () »
US duo awarded Nobel economics prize
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to US economists Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley for the research that helps explain market processes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday. READ () »
Live Blog: 2012 Nobel Prize announcements
The winners of the 2012 Nobel Prizes are being announced this week in Stockholm. The Local brings you all the latest news, reactions, and details surrounding the winners and why they won. READ () »
Swedish ministers hail EU Nobel Peace prize win
Several Swedish government ministers welcomed the news that the European Union has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, with foreign minister Carl Bildt claiming it was "highly deserved". READ () »
Mo Yan win 'denigrates' Nobel lit prize: artist
The Swedish Academy's choice of Mo Yan for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature has been slammed by Chinese dissidents and regime critics, including artist Ai Weiwei who called the decision "a joke". READ () »
'It was an easy decision': Swedish Academy
As the dust settles over a Stockholm all a flutter at the naming of Mo Yan as winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Local’s Rebecca Martin catches up with Peter Englund of the Swedish Academy to find out more about why one should read Yan's work. READ () »
Nobel's will 'blatantly disrespected' in Norway
On the eve of the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, The Local catches up with Norwegian lawyer and Nobel historian Fredrik S. Heffermehl, who claims the Norwegian Nobel Committee isn't following Alfred Nobel's wishes. READ () »
Chinese author Mo Yan awarded Nobel lit prize
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday. READ () »
Seven hot names in the Nobel Literature race
With the Nobel Prize in Literature to be announced in Stockholm on Thursday, world media and gambling companies have taken the chance to voice their favourites and their predictions as to who will be the lucky Literature Laureate. READ () »
Nobel Laureate visits inspire Rinkeby teenagers' dreams
On the eve of the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, the AFP's Camille Bas-Wohlert looks at how the legacy of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel inspires immigrant children near Stockholm. READ () »
Two Americans share 2012 Nobel for chemistry
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka for research that helps explain how cells in the human body "sense" their environment. READ () »
Physics Nobel shared for quantum optics research
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for their "groundbreaking" experimentation in quantum optics. READ () »
Nobel in medicine goes to stem cell researchers
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for research into stem cells. READ () »
Nobel's last will and testament: a background
Alfred Nobel, having made his fortune from his 1866 invention of dynamite, ordered the creation of the Nobel Prizes in his will, but it was a long road to the first ceremony and some of the will's finer points still create a stir today. READ () »
Committee lowers Nobel Prize by 2 million kronor
The Nobel Committee has chosen to lower this year's Nobel prize winnings by two million kronor ($283,030) due to turbulence in the current economic climate. READ () »
Stockholm 'no better than Oslo': Norwegian
A Norwegian man has reported Stockholm to the Swedish consumer ombudsman claiming that the slogan "Stockholm – the Capital of Scandinavia" is "misleading". READ () »
Authorities lay Nobel Peace Prize probe to rest
A recent investigation into the Nobel Foundation following criticism of some of its choices for the Peace Prize will not be pursued any further, Swedish authorities said on Wednesday. READ () »
Nobel Foundation rejects Peace Prize criticism
The Nobel Foundation on Thursday formally rejected recent claims that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has strayed from the wishes expressed in prize creator Alfred Nobel's last will and testament. READ () »
Swedish agency to probe peace prize selection
Stockholm officials have begun investigating claims that Alfred Nobel's last wishes are routinely sidelined by a Norwegian Nobel Committee blinded by pro-NATO sentiments when selecting its annual peace laureate. READ () »
Secrets behind the 1961 Nobel prize in Literature revealed
No outsider is privy to what goes on behind locked doors when the Nobel committee decides the winner of Sweden's prestigious literature prize - not until fifty years later when the documents become public at the Nobel Library in Stockholm. READ () »
Tranströmer the focus of Nobel festivities
Swedish Nobel laureate in literature, Tomas Tranströmer, continued to be the focus of attention during the Nobel banquet on Saturday night. READ () »
Laureates accept Nobel prizes in Stockholm
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf handed out the Nobel prizes in medicine, literature, economics, physics and chemistry the 2011 laureates at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday. READ () »
Poetry and performance infuse Tranströmer's Nobel lecture
Eighty-year-old Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, the first Swede in 40 years to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, looked on with tears in his eyes as he watched his poetry set to music during the 2011 Nobel Lecture in Literature on Wednesday, writes contributor Charlotte West. READ () »
Wordfeud: Swedes' latest smartphone addiction
Swedes just can't seem to get enough of Wordfeud, a Scrabble-like smartphone app that has sucked up countless hours of free time, and may have even sparked a new trend in online dating, contributor Aila Stefansdotter-Franck discovers. READ () »
Two Americans share economics Nobel
The 2011 Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to US-based economists Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims for “their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”. READ () »
Prosecutor probes possible Nobel leak
Rumors that Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer's name was leaked before the award was announced have caused Sweden's chief anti-corruption prosecutor to look into the case. READ () »
Swedish feminists praise Peace Prize winners
Swedish women's rights activists and peace groups hailed the awarding of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to three women who have been instrumental in promoting women's role in peace-building activities in Africa and the Middle East. READ () »
The poetry of Tomas Tranströmer
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, who was on Thursday named the 2011 Nobel Literature Prize laureate, has published a relatively small body of work, often addressing themes of death, history and nature. READ () »
Publisher hails Swedish poet's Nobel
The head of literature at Swedish publishing house Bonniers, which has published the bulk of Tomas Tranströmer's work, compared news of the newly-named Nobel laureate's win to becoming a parent. READ () »
Swedish poet awarded 2011 Literature Nobel
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel prize in Literature. READ () »
Israeli scientist awarded 2011 chemistry Nobel
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery of quasicrystals" which "fundamentally" altered how chemists conceive of solid matter, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. READ () »
Laureate thought Nobel call was 'a student joke'
Australia's newest Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt assumed it was an elaborate undergraduate joke when he heard a Swedish voice on the line informing him that he had a "very important call" on Tuesday night. READ () »
Supernova scientists share 2011 physics Nobel
Three US researchers have been jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae". READ () »
Deceased laureate to retain Nobel Prize
The Nobel Foundation ruled on Monday evening that Ralph Steinman will retain his share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine even though he died before being named recipient of the award. READ () »
Nobel: one of the laureates died last week
Ralph M. Steinman, one of the three researchers jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the immune system, died last week at the age of 68. READ () »
Alfred Nobel’s last will and testament
Swedish industrialist and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a substantial fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, established the Nobel Prizes in his will. READ () »
Three share 2011 Nobel in medicine
Three researchers have been jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries related to the immune system. READ () »
Syrian poet tipped ahead of Nobel lit prize announcement
With the winner of the annual Nobel Prizes due to be announced in the coming days, speculation is rife over who will win the prestigious literature award this year, the AFP's Igor Gedilaghine discovers. READ () »
Union slammed for 'Nobel-like' birthday party
A Swedish labour union has come in for criticism after spending 4 million kronor ($622,000) on a lavish 75th anniversary party held in the same room where Nobel Prize winners dine each December. READ () »
Akzo Nobel signs China partnership
Swedish-Dutch chemicals group Akzo Nobel has announced a partnership with China's Quangxi CAVA for the supply of key materials from 2014. READ () »
Nobel winners urge UN action to save the planet
Around 20 Nobel laureates on Wednesday urged world leaders to promote global sustainability in the "Stockholm Memorandum" which was then passed to a special UN committee. READ () »
Nobel laureates in Stockholm climate 'trial'
Around 20 Nobel prize winners will preside over a mock courtroom in Stockholm on Tuesday, with the Planet Earth and humanity on opposing sides of the case, as part of a symposium to highlight global sustainability. READ () »
Stockholm University: at the forefront of Chemistry research
With four Nobel Chemistry Prize winners through history and leading research in many fields of science, Stockholm University provides a unique environment for chemistry researchers and students. READ () »
Secret Nobel Prize documents stolen
Confidential information about possible winners for the Nobel Prize in Medicine has disappeared from a member of the committee. READ () »
Winners accept prizes in Nobel week climax
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf handed the 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry their prizes on Friday at a gala ceremony in Stockholm. READ () »
Nobel breakthroughs require sustained investment: UK minister
As the 2010 Nobel Laureates prepare to receive their prizes in Stockholm on Friday, UK Science Minister David Willetts highlights the importance of UK-Swedish research collaboration. READ () »
Nobel lit prize winner: writing 'alerts us to oppression'
Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa spoke of the power of writing and the need to defend liberal democracy during his Nobel lecture on Tuesday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, writes contributor Charlotte West. READ () »
Medicine Nobel winner bows out of ceremony
The 2010 Nobel laureate in medicine will not attend the December 10th Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, the Nobel Foundation announced in a statement on Friday. China's ambassador to Sweden has also declined his invitation. READ () »
Nobel laureate: limit jobless payouts to a year
Nobel Economics laureate Christopher Pissarides on Tuesday called on states to subsidise "real jobs" to increase employment and to limit benefits to a maximum of one year to ward off long-term joblessness. READ () »
Swedish far right not welcome at Nobel dinner
Sweden Democrats' leader Jimmie Åkesson is the only parliamentary party leader not invited to the Nobel banquet in Stockholm City Hall in December, with the Nobel Foundation citing the values expressed in Alfred Nobel's will. READ () »
Three share Nobel Prize in economics
Three researchers were awarded the the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics "for their analysis of markets with search frictions", work which is often applied to the study of labour markets. READ () »
Swedish papers praise Peace Prize winner Liu
Swedish newspapers praised the choice of Liu Xiaobo as this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, saying that as China's role in the world grows, it is important to continue to put oneself on the line to criticise the lack of freedom of expression. READ () »
Swedish activists praise Peace Prize winner Liu
Swedish democracy activists praised the choice of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, but emphasised he is not the only prisoner of conscience in China that should be released. READ () »
Peruvian author wins Nobel literature prize
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the Nobel prize in Literature 2010, it was confirmed on Thursday. READ () »
Chemistry Nobel shared by three scientists
Three scientists, Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, have been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on palladium catalysed cross-coupling. READ () »
Physics Nobel awarded for super-thin carbon
Two researchers based at the University of Manchester in the UK have been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on graphene. READ () »
Father of test tube babies claims Nobel in medicine
The first of the 2010 Nobel Prizes, the prize for medicine, has been awarded to British researcher Robert Edwards for his work on in-vitro fertilization. READ () »
Alfred Nobel’s last will and testament
Swedish industrialist and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a substantial fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, established the Nobel Prizes in his will. READ () »
How 'merchant of death' Alfred Nobel became a champion of peace
The legacy of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who made a fortune off the destructive power of dynamite, has become synonymous with peace, in large part due to a small twist of fate, writes the AFP's Marc Preel. READ () »
Date released for Nobel Literature Prize
The Swedish Academy said on Friday that the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, October 7th at 1pm. READ () »
Hat-trick of Swedish universities make world top 100
Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University and Stockholm University have made the grade in a new list of the world’s top 100 higher education establishments. READ () »
Nobel fashion quips land writer in hot water
While the neckline of Princess Madeleine's gown is often under scrutiny by the media during Nobel Week, fashion commentary by one Swedish freelance writer earned her a ban from the leadership of top Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. READ () »
Müller slams Russia at Nobel awards ceremony
While the glittering Nobel Prize ceremony opened to a trumpet fanfare, Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, criticized a number of countries, including Russia, for their lack of commitment to human rights. READ () »
Pomp aplenty as winners gather for Nobel gala
Nobel season reaches its pinnacle on Thursday evening as the 2009 laureates receive their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and dignitaries gather for the banquet of the year at City Hall in Stockholm. READ () »
Bildt berates Iran over treatment of laureate
As Stockholm gears up for Thursday's Nobel banquet, the foreign ministers of Sweden and Norway have lashed out at Iran for its treatment of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, who says Iranian authorities confiscated her medal. READ () »
What can't be said can be written: Herta Müller
Nobel literature laureate Herta Müller contemplated the power and meaning of words as she began her literature lecture on Monday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. READ () »
Nobel Week kicks off with feast and fancy
Nobel Week is once again in full swing, with the 12 Nobel laureates and their respective entourages arriving in the Swedish capital over the weekend. The week’s festivities will culminate with the Nobel Ceremony and Banquet on Thursday. READ () »
Activists win 'Alternative Nobel Prize'
A Congolese environmentalist, an Australian doctor and a peace worker from New Zealand have been announced as the joint winners of the Swedish Right Livelihood Prize. READ () »
Americans claim Nobel economics prize
Two Americans have been awarded the 2009 Nobel economics prize for their research on economic governance, including the first woman to ever receive the prize. READ () »
Swedish journalist claims Obama Nobel jackpot
While the decision to award US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize has been received by widespread surprise, one Swedish journalist is toasting the Norwegians after winning 50,000 kronor on the outcome. READ () »
Obama Nobel win shocks Swedish peace group
The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society has classified as "shameful" the decision by the Nobel Committee in Oslo to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to Barack Obama. READ () »
German author wins Nobel Literature Prize
German writer Herta Müller has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009. READ () »
Speculation mounts as Nobel lit prize nears
Literary circles in Sweden are bursting with speculation ahead of Thursday’s announcement of the Nobel Literature Prize, with many expecting the award to go to a poet for the first time since 1996. READ () »
Three to split Nobel chemistry prize
Three chemists are to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in revealing more about how cells go about using bits of DNA to form the blueprints for living organisms. READ () »
Fibre optic pioneers to share Nobel physics prize
Three researchers are to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for their breakthroughs in fibre optics and digital imaging, the Royal Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday. READ () »
Pundits tip poets for Nobel Literature Prize
This year's Nobel Literature Prize could go to a poet for the first time since 1996, Swedish literary circles say as speculation mounts ahead of Thursday's announcement. READ () »
Nobel Prize for medicine split three ways
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three American researchers. READ () »
Alfred Nobel's last will and testament
Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel created the Nobel prizes in his will, written in 1895, bequeathing his fortune to a fund that would honour "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." READ () »
Date fixed for Nobel Literature Prize
The Swedish Academy said on Thursday that the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize will be announced on Thursday, October 8th. READ () »
Nobel corruption probe dropped
An investigation into the alleged corruption of several members of the Nobel prize science committee will be laid down, a Swedish prosecutor announced Friday. READ () »
Clinton and Blair in Stockholm climate conference
Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Nobel prize-winner Wangari Maathai, met Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Stockholm on Wednesday to discuss the impact of the financial crisis on work to arrest climate change. READ () »
Head of Swedish Academy to step down
Horace Engdahl has announced he is stepping down as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, the body which awards the Nobel Prize for literature. READ () »
Nobel Committees investigated for bribery
Swedish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into possible bribery after revelations that members of three Swedish Nobel Committees received free trips to China from the Chinese government. READ () »
Nobel laureates receive prizes in Stockholm
Princess Madeleine and economics laureate Paul Krugman were among the guests at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm's City Hall on Wednesday evening. READ () »
Sweden decks the halls for Nobel festivities
Over a million Swedes are expected to stay glued to their television sets on Wednesday to watch monarchs, politicians and assorted clever clogs tuck in to the annual Nobel banquet. READ () »
Le Clézio travels into 'the forest of paradoxes'
Nobel literature laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio explores the paradoxes of his profession and argues that the eradication of hunger and illiteracy go hand-in-hand, writes Charlotte West. READ () »
US Nobel laureate to miss 2008 ceremony
American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, who won this year's Nobel Physics Prize with two Japanese physicists, will not travel to Stockholm next week for the award ceremony, the Nobel Foundation said on Friday. READ () »
French Nobel laureate receives Swedish literature prize
Nobel prize-winning French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was in Sweden on Saturday to receive the Stig Dagerman prize for his work drawn from his vast world travels, jury members said. READ () »
American wins Nobel Prize for Economics
US economist and columnist Paul Krugman has been awarded the 2008 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. READ () »
Bildt calls Ahtisaari's 2008 Nobel Peace Prize 'well-deserved'
Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt offered his congratulations to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari for being named the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. READ () »
French novelist wins Nobel Literature Prize
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. READ () »
Nobel Literature Prize speculation mounts
As the Swedish Academy prepares to announce the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, critics argue that major US literary figures are being unfairly sidelined. READ () »
Three chemists awarded Nobel Prize
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded jointly to two US scientists and a Japanese colleague "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". READ () »
Nobel physics award split three ways
Two researchers from Japan and an American colleague have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. READ () »
Three share Nobel Prize for Medicine
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Harald zur Hausen, Francoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier. READ () »
Date set for Nobel Literature Prize
As speculation begins to mount over this year's Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said on Friday it would announce the winner on October 9th. READ () »
Swedish Academy rep slams US literature
Swedish Academy supremo Horace Engdahl has shocked the global literary establishment by denouncing the cultural "ignorance" of authors from the United States. READ () »
Nobel a likely no-no for Sweden's king of crime fiction
The most popular work of crime fiction ever published in Sweden is never likely to win a Nobel Prize. But it should, argues Jeanne Rudbeck, who is left spellbound by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. READ () »
Nobel literature academy hails Solzhenitsyn
The head of the institute that designates the Nobel literature prize has lamented the passing of the 1970 winner of the award, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. READ () »
Winning Nobel ‘a bloody disaster’ for British author
British author Doris Lessing has said that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was a "bloody disaster", adding she has now stopped writing, the BBC reported Sunday. READ () »
Nobel speech censored by Chinese television
The Nobel Foundation has terminated a contract with TV 4 after it has emerged that its chairman's speech was censored by Chinese television. READ () »
Lessing finally receives Nobel Prize
British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to come to Stockholm. READ () »
Akzo Nobel completes takeover of ICI
Akzo Nobel announced on Wednesday that it had completed the purchase of British peer ICI. READ () »
EU regulators approve Akzo Nobel's takeover of ICI
EU antitrust regulators have approved Akzo Nobel's purchase of British peer ICI READ () »
'Slightly tipsy' man gatecrashed Nobel party
A gatecrasher dressed in coat and tails was removed from the Nobel Banquet after a television presenter revealed his secret. READ () »
Pomp and ceremony for Nobel winners
Stockholm put on its glad rags and millions watched on TV as the Nobel Banquet celebrated the world's best brains. READ () »
Nobel winners take prizes in Stockholm
The winners of the 2007 Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics received their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony on Monday. READ () »
'The y-chromosome is the biggest threat to humanity'
Nobel Prizewinner Oliver Smithies talks to Majsan Boström about Alfred Nobel, stem cell research and the problem with boys. READ () »
What is Nobel Week really about?
As Nobel laureates, foreign media and a host of other dignitaries descend on Stockholm, Charlotte West recalls her conversations with two of last year’s winners about the real significance of Nobel Week. READ () »
Nobel Banquet: the feast of feasts
Serving a banquet to over 1,400 people is no mean feat, and when the event is the Nobel Banquet, the stakes are high. Charlotte West goes behind the scenes at the grandest event in Sweden's calendar. READ () »
Oldest laureates absent
The glittering Nobel prize festivities Monday will be a little less luminous without the presence of some of the older laureates. READ () »
Lessing argues for Africa's 'unheard voices'
Nobel Literature Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her Nobel lecture to argue that the future of literature lies in knowledge-hungry developing countries, rather than in the apathetic west, writes Charlotte West. READ () »
Doris Lessing too ill to attend Nobel Prize ceremony
Doris Lessing will not attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on December 10th due to illness, it has been announced. READ () »
Akzo Nobel shareholders approve takeover of ICI
Shareholders in Swedish-Dutch chemicals and paints group Akzo Nobel on Monday approved the company's proposed takeover of British peer ICI. READ () »
Americans win Nobel Economics Prize
The 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics has gone to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". READ () »
Swede tipped for Nobel Economics Prize
The 2007 Nobel prize season comes to a close on Monday with the announcement of the Economics Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Labrokes is tipping a Swedish professor to win. READ () »
Al Gore and IPCC share Nobel Peace Prize
Former US Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are to share the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced. READ () »
Doris Lessing wins Nobel
British author Doris Lessing - "that epicist of the female experience" - has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy has announced. READ () »
Literature Prize keeps pundits guessing
The winner of the 2007 Nobel Literature Prize is to be announced on Thursday and while some are putting their money on US novelist Philip Roth, anything is possible as the Swedish Academy is keeping mum on its choice. READ () »
Passions and politeness: how to award a Nobel
The Swedish Academy is the austere and sobre institution that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. AFP's Francis Kohn speaks to the Academy's permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl about the passions and the controversies behind literature's most coveted prize. READ () »
German wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is to be awarded to German Gerhard Ertl, a pioneer in surface chemistry, it was announced on Wednesday. Ertl said he was speechless at being given the award. READ () »
Two share Nobel Physics Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grünberg, it was announced on Tuesday morning. READ () »
The drawn-out birth of the Nobels
The will of Alfred Nobel led to the creation of some of the most sought-after international prizes in science, politics and literature. But many of his contemporaries were puzzled by his idea. READ () »
Three share Nobel for mouse gene discoveries
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Mario R Capecchi, Martin J Evans and Oliver Smithies, it has been announced. They are being recognized for their roles developing gene targeting in mice. READ () »
Nobel Literature Prize date set
The 2007 Nobel Prize for literature will be announced on October 11, the Swedish Academy said Friday, with literary circles already speculating wildly over who the winner could be. READ () »
No jokes please, we're the Nobel Prize Committee
Sweden's literati-glitterati are whispering the names of the candidates for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. As Jeanne Rudbeck writes, jokes and vulgarity don't go down well at the academy that bypassed Joyce and Wodehouse. READ () »
'Alternative Nobel Prize' awarded
The Right Livelihood prize, an annual "alternative" to the Nobel prizes, was awarded Tuesday to peace and environmental activists from Sri Lanka, Kenya, Canada and Bangladesh. READ () »
Akzo Nobel reported to police
Värmland's county administrative board has reported Akzo Nobel to the police after a quantity of lye leaked from a boat into an enclosed bay in Hammarö. READ () »
Akzo Nobel makes new bid for ICI takeover
Dutch-Swedish chemicals group Akzo Nobel said Monday it had made a new takeover offer for British rival Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), valuing the company at 111 billion kronor. READ () »
Swedish Nobel Prize winner dies
Kai Siegbahn, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981, has died at the age of 89, the TT news agency reported on Saturday. READ () »
Genius meets royalty on Nobel Day
Sunday saw the Swedish party of the year: the Nobel banquet. And as usual, genius and royalty took centre stage at the Stockholm celebrations. READ () »
Banker for the poor wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 has been awarded to Muhammad Yunus, the founder of a micro-credit system to fight poverty in Bangladesh. He shares the prize with Grameen Bank, which he founded. READ () »
Forgotten by Nobel, remembered forever
The Nobel Literature Prize has been won by many famous writers, but many others have been looked over by the Swedish Academy - which seems to hold popularity against a writer when it comes to the prestigious award. READ () »
Turkish writer wins Nobel literature prize
The Turkish author, journalist and social commentator Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the world's most prestigious literature prize - and a cool 10 million kronor. READ () »
Nobel economics prize goes to Edmund Phelps
US economist Edmund S. Phelps has won the Nobel economics prize - or the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to give the award its full title. READ () »
Speculation mounts over Nobel Literature Prize
The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced next Thursday. Potential names being discussed in Stockholm's literary circles include Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa. READ () »
American follows father to Nobel glory
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to American Roger D Kornberg for his discoveries about how information in genes is copied. Kornberg's father also won a Nobel. READ () »
Big Bang scientists win Nobel Physics Prize
American scientists John C. Mather and George F. Smoot have won the Nobel Physics Prize, the Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced. The pair are honoured for their work on the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. READ () »
US Researchers win Nobel Medicine Prize
Two American researchers, Craig Mello and Andrew Fire, are to share the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research into the role of RNA molecules, it is announced. READ () »
Nobel Prize dates set
The Nobel Foundation has set the dates for the announcements of this year's Nobel Prize winners. READ () »
Günter Grass to keep Nobel Prize
The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm has rejected calls to revoke Günter Grass' literature prize, following his admission that he served in Germany's Waffen SS force during the World War II. READ () »
All clear for Nobel Biocare
The Swedish Medical Products Agency says it sees no reason for Nobel Biocare AG to withdraw its dental implant Nobel Direct from the market. READ () »
Nobel Biocare rejects bone loss claims
Swedish university professors have said a dental implant made by Nobel Biocare causes bone loss. We have not seen any evidence to support this, says the biotech company. READ () »
Royals shine at Nobel banquet
Swedish king presents Nobel prizes
The theme of Saturday's Nobel banquet was 'Nordic' and Sweden's royal family glittered among the intellectual elite. The evening also provided a brief respite for beleaguered foreign minister Laila Freivalds.
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Swedish king presents Nobel prizes
The great and the good - and the jolly clever - gather in Stockholm for the academic world's Oscars. The winners are ten million kronor better off - and they might even get to meet Princess Madeleine. READ () »
Opinion: An ignoble prize?
It is the world's most recognizable distinction of honour, but in elevating laureates to god-like status, does the Nobel Prize do humanity a disservice? READ () »
Nobel Foundation could be investing in weapons
Part of the Nobel Foundation's capital, some of the proceeds of which fund the peace prize, is administered by a fund manager which is a major investor in missiles and cluster bombs, a Norwegian paper reveals. READ () »
Stockholm theatre to premiere unknown Nobel play
A previously unknown play written by Alfred Nobel, the creator of the prestigious Nobel prizes, will premiere in Stockholm on the same day this year's awards are distributed. READ () »
Pinter not coming to Nobel gala
Harold Pinter, the playwright awarded this year's Nobel prize for literature, will not attend the prize ceremony or the banquet in Stockholm for health reasons. He will, though, give the traditional laureate's lecture. READ () »
Akzo Nobel to develop bird flu vaccine
The Dutch-Swedish pharamceutical group Akzo Nobel announces plans to develop a vaccine against the human form of bird flu and that tests would begin next year. READ () »
Harold Pinter wins Literature Nobel
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British playwright Harold Pinter has been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy described him as "the foremost representative
of drama in post-war Britain" and said he had restored theatre to its basic elements.
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Academy man quits over Nobel winner
A member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, has resigned in protest at last year's winner, creating controversy just days before the recipient of the 2005 prize is announced. READ () »
Game theorists share economics Nobel
There's a peace theme behind this year's economics Nobel, which goes to Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis". READ () »
Peace prize awarded to IAEA
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. READ () »
A Nobel Calling
Jean-Paul Sartre turned one down, Marie Curie was the first woman to win one, and many doubt that Henry Kissinger should ever have been awarded his Nobel Prize. And we won't find out why he was for fifty years. READ () »
Three share Nobel Chemistry Prize
The 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to a French scientist and two Americans for their pioneering work in the synthetic creation of molecules. "A great step forward for green chemistry," says the Nobel Committee. READ () »
Physics Nobel honours optics research
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been shared between two Americans and one German physicist, all working in the field of optics, said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday. READ () »
Australians share Nobel Prize for Medicine
This year's Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren, both from Australia, for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. READ () »
Four share Right Livelihood prize
Sweden's Right Livelihood prize, dubbed the "alternative" Nobel Peace Prize, is awarded to activists from Canada, Malaysia and Botswana for promoting fair trade and the rights of migrant workers and indigenous peoples. READ () »
Nobel descendant slams Economics prize
A week before this year's Nobel laureates are annonunced, the great great nephew of Alfred Nobel reiterates his criticism of the Nobel Economics Prize, calling it "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation". READ () »
Bono in running for Nobel prize
The Nobel Foundation will announce the winners of the prestigious prizes between October 3rd and 14th, but the Irish rocker faces stiff competition from presidents and humanitarian organisations. READ () »
Former NYC mayor to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Sweden's former consul general in New York has proposed that the city's ex-mayor Rudolph Giuliani be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, arguing that he has "saved more human lives than most people alive today". READ () »
Sick Madeleine misses Nobel party
The tabloids mourn, as Princess Madeleine is forced to miss the Nobel festivities thanks to a bout of the 'flu. Luckily a professor of astrophysical space research was on hand to fill her seat. READ () »
Austrian wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Her Swedish publisher gets the printing presses working overtime, a film based on her book reopens and one of her plays, showing in Stockholm, starts doing brisk business - but Elfriede Jelinek won't be coming to Stockholm to claim her prize. READ () »
Nobel Special: the Americans are coming to Stockholm
America's science department gets a pat on the back as this year's laureates are commended for discovering potential cancer treatments and a new natural force, explaining the sense of smell and getting to grips with business cycles. All this - plus farting herring - in our Nobel special. READ () »
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