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What can't be said can be written: Herta Müller

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Dec 09
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 »

Early English learning comes under academic attack

Education: 20 Nov 09
A Liberal Party proposal to make English language learning obligatory in schools from the first grade has been slammed by members of the Swedish Academy who view it as an "unnecessary reinforcement of the status of English.” READ »

No appreciation for Token as kid's name: Swedish tax agency

Society: 20 Oct 09
Swedish tax authorities have decided to continue their fight to bar a Stockholm-area mother from naming her child Token. READ »

Americans claim Nobel economics prize

Business & Money: 12 Oct 09
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 »

German author wins Nobel Literature Prize

National: 8 Oct 09
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

Society: 8 Oct 09
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

National: 7 Oct 09
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 »

Pundits tip poets for Nobel Literature Prize

Society: 6 Oct 09
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 »

October in Sweden: forest royalty, bandy, prizes from the Academy

Lifestyle: 6 Oct 09
The Year in Sweden - October: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966. READ »

Date fixed for Nobel Literature Prize

National: 2 Oct 09
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

National: 8 Aug 09
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 »

What's on in Sweden: June 12 - 18

Lifestyle: 11 Jun 09
What's on in Sweden: Neil Young & Ikea exhibition in Stockholm; Euro 2009 U-21 football in Gothenburg; Orchestra Baobab in Malmö. READ »

Lund wins bid to host new particle accelerator

Science & Technology: 27 Apr 09
The university town of Lund in southern Sweden is set to become the site of a new particle accelerator, Max IV, Lund University announced on Monday. READ »

Head of Swedish Academy to step down

National: 21 Dec 08
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

Science & Technology: 18 Dec 08
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 »

Le Clézio travels into 'the forest of paradoxes'

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Dec 08
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 »

Saviano to attend Stockholm premiere

Society: 26 Nov 08
Renowned Italian author Roberto Saviano is to attend the Swedish premiere of the film adaptation of his hard-hitting book Gomorrah at the 19th Stockholm Film Festival on Wednesday. READ »

Security high for visit of Rushdie and Saviano

Society: 25 Nov 08
Swedish police have put additional security measures in place for the appearance on Tuesday evening at a seminar in Stockholm of two of the world's most endangered authors, Salman Rushdie and Roberto Saviano. READ »

French Nobel laureate receives Swedish literature prize

Society: 26 Oct 08
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 »

French novelist wins Nobel Literature Prize

Society: 9 Oct 08
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. READ »

Date set for Nobel Literature Prize

Society: 3 Oct 08
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

Society: 1 Oct 08
Swedish Academy supremo Horace Engdahl has shocked the global literary establishment by denouncing the cultural "ignorance" of authors from the United States. READ »

Pink Floyd and Renee Fleming accept Polar Music Prize

Society: 27 Aug 08
British rockers Pink Floyd along with American soprano Renee Fleming received this year's Polar Music Prize in Stockholm on Tuesday night. READ »

Nobel a likely no-no for Sweden's king of crime fiction

Analysis & Opinion: 20 Aug 08
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

Society: 4 Aug 08
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 »

Lessing finally receives Nobel Prize

National: 31 Jan 08
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 »

Black hole scientists win Swedish prize

Science & Technology: 17 Jan 08
An American and two Russian researchers have won a major Swedish scientific award, the Crafoord Prize, for their work on black holes. READ »

What is Nobel Week really about?

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Dec 07
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 »

Doris Lessing too ill to attend Nobel Prize ceremony

National: 28 Nov 07
Doris Lessing will not attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on December 10th due to illness, it has been announced. READ »

Americans win Nobel Economics Prize

Society: 15 Oct 07
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

National: 15 Oct 07
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 »

Doris Lessing wins Nobel

National: 11 Oct 07
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

National: 11 Oct 07
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

Lifestyle: 10 Oct 07
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

Science & Technology: 10 Oct 07
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

Science & Technology: 9 Oct 07
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grünberg, it was announced on Tuesday morning. READ »

Nobel Literature Prize date set

National: 5 Oct 07
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

Lifestyle: 3 Oct 07
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 »

Author Lars Forssell dead

National: 26 Jul 07
Author and member of the prestigious Swedish Academy Lars Forssell died at his home on Thursday morning. He was 79. READ »

Japanese emperor fetes Linnaeus tricentenary in Sweden

Society: 23 May 07
The Japanese Emperor and Empress are in Uppsala on Wednesday to celebrate the 300th birthday of botanist Carolus Linnaeus. READ »

Japanese imperial couple delve into the natural sciences

Society: 22 May 07
The Emperor and Empress of Japan stopped off at botanical gardens, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a natural history museum as part of their visit to Stockholm. READ »

Hats off to Polar Music Prize winners

Society: 21 May 07
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins and composer Steve Reich were in Stockholm on Monday to talk about the Polar Music Prize, jazz music and baseball caps, before collecting their gongs from King Carl Gustaf in a ceremony at Konserthuset. READ »

Sweden kicks off Linnaeus festivities

Science & Technology: 20 May 07
This week will see the culmination of festivities celebrating the life of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who who born 300 years ago. Among those due to join the celebrations is Emperor Akihito of Japan. READ »

Swedish fights rearguard action against English behemoth

Lifestyle: 18 Apr 07
The World in Sweden Series:While some worry that immigrant dialects are polluting the Swedish language, what really concerns the guardians of the national tounge is the rise and rise of English, as Christine Demsteader finds out. READ »

Composer and jazz saxophonist share Polar Music Prize

Lifestyle: 25 Jan 07
US composer Steve Reich and jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins were on Thursday awarded the Polar Music Prize for their contributions to music, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music said. READ »

World's oldest newspaper goes out of print

National: 2 Jan 07
Sweden's Post- och Inrikes Tidningar has gone through more than 360 years' worth of paper and ink. But since New Year's Day readers have had to go to the internet for their daily dose of announcements. READ »

Swedish ambassador slams Turkish documentary

National: 18 Dec 06
Sweden's Ambassador to Turkey, Christer Asp, speaks to The Local about a Turkish documentary accusing Sweden of genocide. READ »

Forgotten by Nobel, remembered forever

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Oct 06
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

National: 12 Oct 06
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

National: 9 Oct 06
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

National: 6 Oct 06
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

National: 4 Oct 06
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

National: 3 Oct 06
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 »

Carl Gustaf delighted by gifts fit for a king

National: 28 Apr 06
No mere socks and aftershave for the Swedish king, who turns 60 on Sunday. At an official gift ceremony on Friday, he was showered with everything from homemade jam to a conference on water quality. Fantastic, he said. READ »

Word Wallahs Willingly Welcome W

Lifestyle: 21 Apr 06
Single V or double V? Swedes are used to the Vs and the Ws being listed together, but Sweden's new official word list has put them apart. It has also welcomed English newcomers such as 'cookie' and 'new age'. READ »

Banker gives fortune to save sea

National: 2 Nov 05
A Swedish businessman has given 500 million kronor of his own money to save the Baltic Sea. You just need to look to understand that the Baltic is sick, says Björn Carlson. READ »

Harold Pinter wins Literature Nobel

Lifestyle: 13 Oct 05
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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. READ »

Academy man quits over Nobel winner

National: 11 Oct 05
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

National: 10 Oct 05
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 »

Three share Nobel Chemistry Prize

National: 5 Oct 05
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

National: 4 Oct 05
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 »

Bono in running for Nobel prize

National: 18 Aug 05
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 »

Polar Music Prize rewards bossa-nova and opera

Lifestyle: 24 May 05
Brazilian artist Gilberto Gil is in Stockholm, where on Monday night he shared the increasingly prestigious Polar Music Prize with German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. READ »

Should Swedish Armed Forces be fighting terrorism?

Politics: 23 Jan 05
This was the main issue being discussed during the 'People and Defence' Conference in Sälen last week. And it's not just terrorism: following the tsunami and the storm, there are calls for an expanded remit for Sweden's Armed Forces. READ »

Austrian wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Lifestyle: 11 Oct 04
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 »

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