NOBEL PRIZE Definition & Meaning

Nobel Prize

[ noh-bel prahyz, noh-bel ]

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any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel: for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and the promotion of peace. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ( def ).

Nobel prize

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a prize for outstanding contributions to chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, literature, economics, and peace that may be awarded annually. It was established in 1901, the prize for economics being added in 1969. The recipients are chosen by an international committee centred in Sweden, except for the peace prize which is awarded in Oslo by a committee of the Norwegian parliament

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Vargas Llosa, a writer whose towering literary career included the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 and whose role as a public intellectual and political commentator prompted a failed bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990, has died at 89, his son Álvaro said Sunday.

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Wisława Szymborska, the Polish poet, won the 1996 Nobel Prize in literature “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”

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With more than 50 works to his name, many of which have been widely translated, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 when judges dubbed him a "divinely gifted story-teller".

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They reconciled in 2007 and three years later, in 2010, Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize - the first South American writer to be chosen for the literature prize since Gabriel García Márquez took the honour in 1982.

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The novel won praise from the Nobel Prize Committee for its attention to "structures of power" and "images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

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