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• Winner: The Architects of AI.
• Announcement date: 11 December 2025.
• Organization: TIME magazine, USA.

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• 2024: Donald Trump was named Person of the Year.
• 2023: Taylor Swift was named Person of the Year.

Last verified on 15-10-2026

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• Winners: Anand RK, Suparna Sharma, and Natalie Obiko Pearson.
• Award: 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary.
• Winning work: trAPPed, about digital scams and “digital arrest” in India.
• Announcement date: 4 May 2026.

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• 2023 → Mona Chalabi
• 2024 → Medar de la Cruz
• 2025 → Ann Telnaes

Last verified on 15-10-2026

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Total categories: 6

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

First awarded: 10 December 1901

Location: Stockholm, Sweden (the Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway)

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• Original categories (1901) were 5 
• 6th category was added in 1968 as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Explanation

• Winning novel: Taiwan Travelogue
• Author: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
• Translator: Lin King
• Original language: Mandarin Chinese

Last verified on 08-10-2026

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• The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for outstanding work in journalism and several other fields.
• It was established by Joseph Pulitzer.
• He was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher.
• The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917.
• Major categories include Journalism, Letters, Drama, and Music.
• The Pulitzer Prizes are administered by Columbia University in New York City.

Last verified 08-08-2026

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• 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature László Krasznahorkai (Nationality:  Hungarian).
• Purpose: For his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art
• Date: 9 October 2025 (announcement) 10 December 2025 (ceremony)
• Location: Stockholm, Sweden
• Presented by: Swedish Academy
• First award: 1901

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• Nobel Literature Prize 2024
• Winner: Han Kang
• Nationality:  South Korean
• Purpose: For her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.

Last verified on 06-05-2026

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About 2026 International Booker Prize

Winning Title: Taiwan Travelogue

Author: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

Translator: Lin King

Language: Mandarin Chinese

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The International Booker Prize is a major literary award that recognizes the best works of fiction translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

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Explanation

German mathematician Gerd Faltings, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, became the first German researcher to win the Abel Prize.

Faltings was awarded the 2026 honor "for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long-standing diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang".

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The Abel Prize is one of the highest and most prestigious honors in mathematics.

Explanation

German mathematician Gerd Faltings, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, became the first German researcher to win the Abel Prize.

Faltings was awarded the 2026 honor "for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long-standing diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang".

Additional Information:

The Abel Prize is one of the highest and most prestigious honors in mathematics.

Explanation

German mathematician Gerd Faltings, director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, became the first German researcher to win the Abel Prize.

Faltings was awarded the 2026 honor "for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long-standing diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang".

Additional Information:

The Abel Prize is one of the highest and most prestigious honors in mathematics.