Nobel Prize
HIGHLIGHT / Where to Start with Nobel Laureate, Jon Fosse
On 5th October, 2023 the acclaimed Norwegian playwright and poet, Jon Olav Fosse, won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
News report / Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature
He told the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that he was “surprised but also not” to have won.
Gender gap economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel prize
American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for "having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said today
Nobel Chemistry prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots used in LED lights
Nanoparticles and quantum dots are used in LED-lights and TV-screens and can also be used to guide surgeons while removing cancer tissue.
INTERVIEW / Behind the scenes of the Dhaka Literary Festival 2023
Literature is our main area of interest.But we also want to highlight areas of intersection between literature and science, politics, pop culture, human rights, and new media.
Nobel Prize: Thomas Hardy lost to Tagore, Tarashankar to Neruda
As the Nobel Prize authorities recently declassified the list of nominees and nominators for the for the Nobel Prize of several years, a wealth of information tumbled out.
Five interesting facts about the Nobel prize
Since 1901, the Nobel prizes have been awarded to men, women and organisations for work that has led to great advances for mankind. Here are five interesting facts to know about the prizes and their creator.
POLITICAL SATIRE / And the Nobel Prize for Violence Goes to…
No, silly, there is no such prize for violence. That’s just a conversation starter. After all, what better way to invoke the mighty Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) than with a nod to violence?
Immigrant experience in focus: Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel in Literature
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has just been announced as the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."
Nobel Prize for Physics: Winners include first woman in 55 years
Three scientists yesterday won the Nobel Physics Prize, including the first woman in 55 years, for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery, the jury said.
2018 Nobel Literature Prize's fate to be announced Friday
The Swedish Academy is to announce on Friday whether or not it may postpone the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize, its administrative director says, after it plunged into a crisis over links to a man accused of sexual assault.
Chile poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, deepen mystery: Experts
A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.
Angus Deaton wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Scotland-born Angus Deaton wins the Nobel memorial prize in economics.
Nobel laureate for Literature Alexievich: Exposing stark Soviet realities
Svetlana Alexievich, this year's Nobel laureate for literature, says her approach is to let "human voices speak for themselves".
Nobel Prize in literature: What to look out for
Will the prize awarding body choose to honor the occasion by picking a female winner? Will it break new ground by giving the prize to a journalist? Or will it rush to bestow the coveted prize on one of the many aging favorites?
Chemistry Nobel: Lindahl, Modrich and Sancar win for DNA repair
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for discoveries in DNA repair.
Neutrino 'flavours' win physics Nobel Prize
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been won by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald, for discovering how neutrinos switch between different "flavours".
Nobel winner Irwin Rose dies
Irwin Rose, a biochemist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a way that cells destroy unwanted proteins the basis for developing new cancer therapies has died.
'Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash killed
US mathematician John Nash, whose life story was turned into the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, dies in a car crash
