STOCKHOLM — After three days of Nobel prizes honoring work within the sciences, the literature award is being introduced Thursday by the Nobel Committee on the Swedish Academy.
The winner will comply with Norwegian author Jon Fosse, who was honored final yr for writing in Nynorsk, one of many two official written variations of the Norwegian language, that prize organizers stated provides “voice to the unsayable.”
The literature prize has lengthy confronted criticism that it’s too centered on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has additionally been male-dominated, with simply 17 ladies amongst its 119 laureates. The final girl to win was Annie Ernaux of France, in 2022.
Six days of Nobel bulletins opened Monday with People Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun profitable the drugs prize. Two founding fathers of machine studying — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — gained the physics prize on Tuesday. On Wednesday, three scientists who found highly effective strategies to decode and even design novel proteins have been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
The Nobel Peace Prize shall be introduced Friday and the economics award on Oct. 14.
The prize carries a money award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to obtain their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s dying.
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Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.
