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Nobel Prize season is upon us once again. Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of prizes in the sciences, literature and economics, as well as peace work. In total, six prizes will be awarded.
What are the Nobel prizes?
Six Nobel Prizes are awarded every year, each recognizing an individual’s or organization’s groundbreaking contribution in a specific field. Prizes are given for physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, economic science, literature and peace work, which often draws the most attention because of the caliber of people and groups nominated.
Previous Nobel Peace Prize recipients include Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai (2014), President Barack Obama (2009), Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk (1993), the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (1989) and Mother Teresa (1979).
This year, there are 351 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The award for peace work will be announced on Friday October 6.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/nobel-prizes-2023.html
HERE ARE MY CANDIDATES:
Iran: From her exile in the USA, Masih Alinejad has started the My Stealthy Freedom and #WhiteWednesdays campaigns. Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh have both been in and out of prison in the last decade. The two journalists who first wrote about Mahsa Amini's death, Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, have also been proposed for the peace prize.
Afghanistan: Fawzia Koofi was deputy speaker of the Afghan National Assembly and was nicknamed The Afghan Terrier for her fight for women. Simar Samar was the country's first female vice president. While Zarifa Ghafarivar is Afghanistan's first female mayor, and Hassina Syed is pointed out by the magazine Forbes as one of the country's leading businesswomen. The Peace Research Institute (PRIO) highlights Mahbouba Seraj. She took part in the controversial dialogue meeting with the Taliban in Oslo last January, and is still talking to Taliban leaders in the hope of getting girls and young women back to school.
Translated from Norwegian by Google Translate. https://www.nrk.no/urix/dette-er-favorittene-til-nobels-fredspris-2023-1.16563454
