Published 13:17 IST, October 14th 2019
Nobel awards season comes to an end with economics prize
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce last Nobel winner on Monday when it awards prestigious economics prize, officially called Bank of Sweden Prize.
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Royal Swedish Acemy of Sciences will anunce last bel winner later Monday when it awards its prestigious ecomics prize. prize — officially kwn as Bank of Sweden Prize in Ecomic Sciences in Memory of Alfred bel — wasn’t created by prize founder, but it is considered to be part of bel stable of awards. prize was created by Riksbanken, Swedish central bank, in 1968, and first winner was selected a year later. So far, 81 bel laureates in ecomic sciences have been awarded.
bel prizes in various fields
With glory comes a 9 million-kror ($918,000) cash award, a gold medal, and a diploma. Last week, six bel prizes were given — medicine, physics, and chemistry plus two literature awards, and coveted Peace Prize. literature prizes — one for 2018 and one 2019 —were given to Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk and Austria’s Peter Handke, after prize was awarded last year due to sex-abuse allegations that rocked Swedish Acemy. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s two-dece border conflict with Eritrea. All but winner of Peace Prize receive ir awards on Dec. 10 — anniversary of bel’s death in 1896 — in Stockholm. winner of Peace Prize receives award in Oslo, rway.
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bel prize for literature
bel Prizes for literature were awarded Thursday to two writers enmeshed in Europe’s social and political fault lines: a liberal Pole who has irked her country’s conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes. rare double anuncement — with 2018 prize going to Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk and 2019 award to Austria’s Peter Handke — came after literature prize was awarded last year due to sex abuse allegations that rocked Swedish Acemy, which awards literature prize. Yet if prize organizers hoped to get through this year’s awards without controversy, y will likely be disappointed. Swedish Acemy called Handke “one of most influential writers in Europe” and praised his work for exploring “ periphery and specificity of human experience.”
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13:06 IST, October 14th 2019