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Wednesday 2 December 2020
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.
Right name, wrong man.
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.”
This is why proofreading your tweets is essential.
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.
The Colombian writer was 87.
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.
The singer-songwriter writes of his conversations with the literary great in Dublin and in Manhattan, and says there are “few poets” he would rank as Heaney’s equal.
THE SHOPS ARE back, festive music is playing and the weather is going to get absolutely Baltic this week. Even though it’s been a strange year, you’d know Christmas is on the way.
But although it’s a time for giving and the shops are open again, the usual scenes of charity fundraisers on the streets will likely be less frequent due to public health concerns.
Many people make a point of putting some money, food or other items away to make a donation to a particular cause around this time of year, and will likely have to go a bit out of their way to do so in 2020.
Are you one of those people? This morning we want to know: Will you be giving to charity this Christmas?
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