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Thursday 20 January 2022
The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced today.
The WFP was honoured for “its efforts to combat hunger” and “its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas”.
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna were announced as the recipients in Stockholm.
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke were both awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
Peter Handke was a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Two winners were announced today as the prize was not awarded in 2018 following a scandal.
She shared the award with two other scientists.
This is the first time it has been postponed in over 70 years.
A high-profile figure associated with the Swedish Academy has been accused by 18 women of sexual assault and harassment.
The Nobel Medicine Prize was awarded last week to three scientists highlighted how the body clock works.
The prize is worth 9 million kronor (€1 million).
Liu Xiaobo was sentenced in 2009 for “subversion” after spearheading a bold petition for democratic reforms.
The decision to give the musician the award sparked controversy in recent months.
The musician recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Patti Smith will also perform a version of Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.
Dylan has also indicated he will skip the Nobel award ceremony in December.
The new, revised accord will be submitted to Congress for approval, after the last one was rejected in a referendum.
The 75-year-old is the first songwriter to win the prestigious award.
For fans of lyrics, or of lyrical music, Dylan’s output rewards thorough exploration like no other artist of the last 100 years
The American singer was awarded the prize for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
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Professor Campbell is only the second Irish person to ever be awarded the prize for science.
Irishman William Campbell shared one half of the prize with Satoshi Omura of Japan.
The Pakistani activist is multi-talented.
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It has also been revealed that the man who bought the medal did so to give it back.
It’s fair to say he’s “accomplished.”
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The teenager was the joint winner of the award along with Kailash Satyarthi of India.
The award is the biggest prize in literature and is worth €877,000.
May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have shared the award with fellow neuroscientist John O’Keefe.
Many high-profile women from the science, tech, engineering and maths fields have little or no profile on the contributor-generated online encyclopaedia.
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is due to pick up a prize of US $1.2 million.
Robert Shiller compiles two charts and makes them free for the public – and these charts predicted the dotcom bubble and the property bubble.
The Syrian leader made the remark “jokingly” according to a Lebanese newspaper.
The 82-year-old Canadian has become just the 13th woman to win the prize in 112 years.
CABINET HAS APPROVED the publication of a new law that will give customers clear information on where their tips and service charges go and prohibit the use of tips to ‘make up’ contractual rates of pay.
The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Bill, brought forward by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, will provide clarity to workers on the meaning of tips, gratuities and service charges.
The new legislation will also place tips and gratuities, but not service charges, outside the scope of a person’s contractual wages, and will oblige employers to display prominently their policy on the distribution of both cash and card tips.
Employers will also be obliged to distribute fairly, equitably and in a transparent manner how tips that are received in electronic form – such as through debit, credit cards or smart phones.
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