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About Literature Nobel Prize 2024

Winner: Han Kang

She is the author of South Korea.

She is the first woman of South Korea to win Nobel Prize in Literature.  

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse.

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About Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023

Co-winners: Katalin Kariko & Drew Weissman

Katalin Kariko belongs to Hungary

Drew Weissman belongs to USA

For their work which helped develop Covid vaccines in early 2020

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UNHCR: United Nations High Commission for Refugees

UNHCR founded: 1950

UNHCR headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland

UNHCR won Nobel Peace Prize: 1954

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Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 11, 2019,

For his efforts in achieving peace and decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.

His leadership led to the signing of a peace agreement with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in July 2018

Ending a 20-year military stalemate following the Eritrean-Ethiopian War

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Other Nobel Prizes in 2016:

• Peace: Juan Manuel Santos (Colombian President, for efforts to end the country’s 50-year civil war).
• Physics: David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz (for discoveries in topological phases of matter).
• Chemistry: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa (for the design and synthesis of molecular machines).
• Medicine: Yoshinori Ohsumi (for discoveries in autophagy, a cell recycling process).
• Economics: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström (for contributions to contract theory).

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In 2021, Nobel Prize  for Literature was awarded to novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah of Tanzania

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 to Abdulrazak Gurnah, presented by Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on 7 October 2021

"Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL" the Book did Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize

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3 Muslims won the Noble Prize in literature in 2021

Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) & Abdulrazak Gurnah became 3rd Muslim Nobel prize winners in literature.

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Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.