STOCKHOLM (AP) — This 12 months’s Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to French creator Annie Ernaux.
Ernaux, 82, was cited for “the braveness and scientific acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of private reminiscence,” the Nobel committee stated.
Mats Malm, everlasting secretary of the Swedish Academy, introduced the winner Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden.
Every week of Nobel Prize bulletins kicked off Monday with the award in drugs honoring a scientist who unlocked the secrets and techniques of Neanderthal DNA.
Three scientists collectively received the prize in physics Tuesday for exhibiting that tiny particles can retain a reference to one another even when separated.
The prize for chemistry was awarded Wednesday to 3 scientists who developed methods of connecting molecules that can be utilized to design extra focused medication.
They proceed with chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize can be introduced on Friday and the economics award on Oct. 10.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The winner of the Nobel Prize in literature can be introduced Thursday on the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
Whereas the recipient is notoriously unpredictable, one clear contender is Salman Rushdie, the India-born author and free-speech advocate who spent years in hiding after Iran’s clerical rulers known as for his demise over his 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses.” Rushdie, 75, was stabbed and critically injured in August at a pageant in New York state.
Different potential winners embrace literary giants from world wide: Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Japan’s Haruki Murakami, Norway’s Jon Fosse, Antigua-born Jamaica Kincaid and France’s Annie Ernaux.
Final 12 months’s prize went to the Tanzanian-born, U.Okay.-based author Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose novels discover the influence of migration on people and societies.
Gurnah was solely the sixth Nobel literature laureate born in Africa, and the prize has lengthy confronted criticism that it’s too targeted on European and North American writers. It’s also male-dominated, with simply 16 girls amongst its 118 laureates.
The prizes to Gurnah in 2021 and U.S. poet Louise Glück in 2020 helped the literature prize transfer on from years of controversy and scandal.
In 2018, the award was postponed after intercourse abuse allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, which names the Nobel literature committee, and sparked an exodus of members. The academy revamped itself however confronted extra criticism for giving the 2019 literature award to Austria’s Peter Handke, who has been known as an apologist for Serbian conflict crimes.
Every week of Nobel Prize bulletins kicked off Monday with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving the award in drugs for unlocking secrets and techniques of Neanderthal DNA that offered key insights into our immune system.
Three scientists collectively received the prize in physics Tuesday. Frenchman Alain Side, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger had proven that tiny particles can retain a reference to one another even when separated, a phenomenon often known as quantum entanglement, that can be utilized for specialised computing and to encrypt info.
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to People Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Okay. Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal for creating a method of “snapping molecules collectively” that can be utilized to discover cells, map DNA and design medication that may goal illnesses reminiscent of most cancers extra exactly.
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize can be introduced on Friday and the economics award on Monday.
The prizes carry a money award of 10 million Swedish kronor (almost $900,000) and can be handed out on Dec. 10. The cash comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, in 1895.