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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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• About the 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.

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• The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to a political leader from Venezuela.
• She is Maria Corina Machado, an opposition leader.
• She was honored for promoting democratic rights and free elections.

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• The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors.

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• The 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics was jointly awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson.
• They were honored for improvements in auction theory and new auction formats.
• Both are well-known scholars from Stanford University.

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• Harold Pinter was a famous British (UK) playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
• He was known for his unique writing style called “Pinteresque.”
• Nobel Prize field: Literature
• Award year: 2005
• Born: 1930
• Died: 2008

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The first Noble Prize to be awarded to a South Asian was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore.

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• Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the Law of the photoelectric effect
• The 1921 prize was actually awarded in 1922.

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• Seven Muslims have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so far.
• They are recognized for efforts in peace, human rights, and conflict resolution.

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1. Anwar Sadat (Egypt) – 1978
2. Yasser Arafat (Palestine) – 1994
3. Shirin Ebadi (Iran) – 2003
4. Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt) – 2005
5. Tawakkol Karman (Yemen) – 2011
6. Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) – 2014
7. Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia) – 2019

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2022 Nobel Peace Prize Recipients

• Ales Bialiatski – Belarus
• Memorial Organization – Russia
• Center for Civil Liberties – Ukraine

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• The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization founded in 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland.

It has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times:

1. 1917 – For relief efforts during World War I
2. 1944 – For relief work during World War II
3. 1963 – On the occasion of 100th anniversary of its founding

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• Henri Dunant, the founder, won the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

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• Annie Ernaux is a famous writer from France.
• She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.
• The award recognized her work exploring memory, identity, and social inequality.
• Her writings are often based on autobiographical experiences.

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• 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah – Tanzania/UK
• 2020: Louise Glück – USA
• 2019: Peter Handke – Austria
• 2018: Olga Tokarczuk – Poland

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