Nobel prize

Beijing property market a bit too hot for Nobel prize winner

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:44:32 GMT

Source: blogs.ft.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
What is a Nobel prize worth in the Beijing property marke t? Not very much if Nobel-winning Chinese author Mo Yan’s experience is anything to go by. Chinese media reports say Mo (pictured) has bought an apartment on the far outskirts of the Chinese capital that they estimate will have cost him about half his Nobel prize money of $1.2m. Continue reading » ...

Which five authors are in running for the 2013 Nobel prize?

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
A tweet from the Swedish Academy has unleashed a flood of speculation about the five writers they are considering - could it be Don DeLillo's year, or perhaps it's Murakami's turn There's been a flurry of gossip over the Nobel prize for literature, thanks to GalleyCat and the Literary Saloon, who both highlighted this tweet from the Swedish Academy over the weekend, that "5 candidates have been selected for 2013 #NobelPrize in #Literature according to Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy". Tantalising! Who do we think they could be? Will it be Philip Roth's year, now he's retired from the old writing business? I'd love it if it were, but I think it's unlikely, given that he's nothing new out - Steinbeck, for example, won in 1962, well after his most enduring works were published, but according to recently released records from the Nobel archives, the Academy felt that the publication of his novel The Winter of Our Discontent in 1961 showed that "after some signs of slowing down in recent years, [Steinbeck has] regained its position as a social truth-teller [and is an] authentic realist fully equal to his predecessors Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway". As Roth has ruled out any more novels, I think his "position as a social truth-teller" is going to have to rely on his past oeuvre - and I'm not sure that'll sway the Academy. MA Orthofer at the Complete Review wonders if an African author will be in the running this year: ...

rysiek: ♻@ioerror Can we revoke Obama's #Nobel Peace Prize & #Transparency Award yet? USA="Under #Surveillance Always"

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:33:38 GMT

Source: identi.ca --- Monday, May 20, 2013
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How do the Nobel Prize judges keep what they're reading a secret? Dustin has som...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:16:19 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
How do the Nobel prize judges keep what they're reading a secret? Dustin has some ideas. Eleven tactics to keep your reading choice a secret | MobyLives www.mhpbooks.com Over on the Literary Saloon Michael OrthoferÂ discusses the secrecy with which the Nobel committee must read over the works that have been nominated, lest the names of those under consideration leak out. The list of nominees is down to five… ...

Sea slugs help win Nobel Prize

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:21:36 GMT

Source: www.cnn.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Neuroscientists love Aplysia. They are a type of sea slug that grows to be about a foot long. With only 20,000 nerve cells -- compared with about 100 billion found in the human brain -- Aplysia are the perfect lab animals for brain researchers hoping to isolate a crucial connection. ...

Calls for Chinua Achebe Nobel prize 'obscene', says Wole Soyinka

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:15:50 GMT

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Soyinka, a Nobel laureate himself, also dismisses claims that Achebe was 'father of African literature' Calls for the late Chinua Achebe to be awarded a posthumous Nobel prize for literature have "gone beyond 'sickening'" and become "obscene and irreverent", Achebe's fellow Nigerian author – and 1986 Nobel laureate – Wole Soyinka has said. In a wide-ranging and passionate interview with SaharaReporters , ahead of Achebe's funeral this week, Soyinka urged Achebe's "cohorts" to cease in their attempts "to confine Chinua's achievement space into a bunker over which hangs an unlit lamp labelled 'Nobel'". As a winner of the prize, Soyinka can nominate future laureates to the Swedish Academy, and said he had been receiving a series of letters begging him to put Achebe forward. "Let us quit this indecent exercise of fatuous plaints, including raising hopes, even now, with talk of 'posthumous' conferment, when you know damned well that the Nobel committee does not indulge in such tradition. It has gone beyond 'sickening'. It is obscene and irreverent. It desecrates memory," Soyinka told Sahara Reporters. "This conduct is gross disservice to Chinua Achebe and disrespectful of the life-engrossing occupation known as literature. How did creative valuation descend to such banality? Do these people know what they're doing – they are inscribing Chinua's epitaph in the negative mode of thwarted expectations. I find that disgusting." Soyinka, wh ...

Wole Soyinka: Push for Nobel Prize for Achebe Is 'Obscene'

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:39:06 GMT

Source: www.theroot.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Some in the literary world are pushing for the late Chinua Achebe to be awarded a posthumous Nobel prize for literature, and fellow Nigerian author Wole Soyinka has had enough, The Guardian reports. He says the calls have "gone beyond 'sickening' " and become "obscene and irreverent." To be clear, it's not that Soyinka -- himself a 1986 Nobel laureate who can nominate future candidates -- doesn't think Achebe is worth honoring. Rather, as he puts it, "You know damned well that the Nobel Committee doesn't engage in such tradition." In other words, a posthumous conferment isn't going to happen, and an obsession with wishing that it would does a disservice to the late author. Soyinka didn't mince any words explaining why: Read full article... ...

ladieslovescience: Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize in...

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:30:24 GMT

Source: carrotcupcake.tumblr.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
ladieslovescience : Barbara McClintock won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 (she remains the only woman to have received an unshared prize in that category). She studied corn for most of her life, which might sound boring, but guess what? It was AWESOME CORN. Her corn studies allowed her to make significant discoveries and demonstrations in genetics, from the process of genetic recombination (crossing-over) to genetic mapping. McClintock faced sexism in her field that prevented her from receiving proper recognition for her work for well, a long time (like, 30 or forty years). LLS thanks for the recommendation from troete ...

Campaigning for Sir Nicholas Winton to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:17:13 GMT

Source: hurryupharry.org --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
Sir Nicholas Winton is 104 years old today. He saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children, and now a petition has been launched calling for him to be awarded the Nobel Peace prize. We students are young people, who believe that the deeds of Sir Nicholas Winton should deserve the Nobel Peace prize award. In the year 1939, Sir Nicholas Winton saved 669 mainly Jewish children mostly from Nazi occupied area of former Czechoslovakia. Despite the reluctance of the government in his homeland, Winton on his own organized train transportations into Great Britain, giving the children new hope and a new home. Here is a video produced by Winton’s young Czech supporters. Hat tip: Sarka ...

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Pentagion’s Special Operations Chief Sees 10 To 20 More Years Of War Agai…

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:02:05 GMT

Source: pjmedia.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
Nobel PEACE prize UPDATE: Pentagion’s Special Operations Chief Sees 10 To 20 More Years Of War Against al-Qaida. ...