In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, ...

The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...

(Yonhap) (LEAD) Han Kang-Nobel Prize (LEAD) Han Kang awarded Nobel ... She further emphasized that "science, literature and peace offer different paths to tackle today's wicked problems, but ...

When Nobel died, he left most of his fortune to establish these prizes, reflecting each of his interests. These categories are physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a Japanese organisation of atomic bomb survivors. Nobel Committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen praised the "extraordinary efforts" of the Nihon ...

Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2021 to 2025, has served in Congress, as White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama, and as mayor of Chicago. He will spend the next year ...

I thought I would make a contribution where Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize was concerned ... the one given by a literature laureate, William Faulkner, in 1950. Faulkner said, “I believe ...

The Nobel Peace Prize committee has the chance to show the world anew that they’re committed to the cause of peace by the wishes of founder Alfred Nobel. The committee might, however ...

The Nobel Prize in Literature has honoured predominantly Western writers since it was first awarded in 1901, but the Swedish Academy may shine its spotlight further afield this year, experts say.

The prizes in physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics will follow, with one announcement every weekday until October 9. The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century ...