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• Winner: Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Award: Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
  • Presented by: The Swedish Academy
  • Recognition: For “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.”

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• The United States has the most Nobel Laureates.
• After the US, the United Kingdom (UK) has the second largest number of Nobel Prize winners.
• Nobel Prizes are awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.

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Alfred Nobel (a Swedish chemist) initiated Nobel Prize in:

• Peace
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Physiology or Medicine
• Literature

In 1901, Nobel Prize was first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden,

expected the Peace Prize in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.

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Nobel Prize in Economics started in 1968

In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize

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First Nobel Prize in Economics – Key Points

Year & Recipients: 1969, awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen.

Reason: For developing and applying dynamic models to analyze economic processes.