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India rising star Shubman Gill is the ICC Men's Player of the Month for September 2023 after dominating a stretch of ODIs ahead of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup.

 Men's Player for August 2023: Babar Azam (Pakistan)

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2023 economic sciences laureate, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labor market participation through the centuries. 

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A magnitude-6.2 earthquake occurred in Herat Province at around 11:11 Oct. 7, 2023. The epicenter was about 36 km (22 miles) north-northeast of Zindah Jan.

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To date, the youngest literature laureate is Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book,

who was 41 years old when he was awarded the literature prize in 1907.

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The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in literature to date is Doris Lessing, who was 88 years old when she was awarded the Prize in 2007.

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The oldest Nobel Peace Prize laureate to date is Joseph Rotblat, who was 87 years old when he was awarded the prize in 1995.

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• The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 30 times to organisations between 1901 and 2023.
• 27 individual organisations have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, as UNHCR, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has received the Nobel Peace Prize twice, in 1954 and 1981, and the work of Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) (ICRC) has been honoured three times, in 1917, 1944 and 1963.
  

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• Of the 111 individuals awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 19 are women.
• The first time a Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a woman was in 1905, to Bertha von Suttner.
  

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• 17 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf  was the first woman to be awarded in 1909.
• Selma Lagerlöf was awarded five years before she was elected to the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize awarding institution responsible for selecting Nobel Prize laureates in literature.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”