The Nobel Committee awarded the prize because “The peacekeeping forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has ...

The Nobel Academy guards its deliberations over prize winners for 50 years, and events in 1974 help explain why. That year, the two winners of the Nobel for literature were members of the Literature ...

However, in the anglophone world, Hesse remained relatively unknown till English translations of his novels started getting commissioned after the Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to him. The ...

Among these exceptional individuals are those who receive Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prizes are far from ordinary awards. Established in 1895 by Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel ...