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"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today" [95] novel, short story, essay 1995: Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Ireland: English "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past" [96]
The capital of the Nobel Foundation today is invested 50% in shares, 20% bonds and 30% other investments (e.g. hedge funds or real estate). The distribution can vary by 10 percent. [ 32 ] At the beginning of 2008, 64% of the funds were invested mainly in American and European stocks, 20% in bonds, plus 12% in real estate and hedge funds.
There is no statutory limit on the number of acting nominees from the same film in a single category. As of the 95th Academy Awards, no film has ever received more than three; the last film to do so was The Godfather Part II, which received three nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the 47th Academy Awards.
Tate Britain: the venue for the Turner Prize except in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 The Turner Prize is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist, organised by the Tate Gallery. Named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, it was first presented in 1984, and is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious, but controversial, art awards. Initially, the prize was awarded to the ...
The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original Swedish: den som inom ...
Despite the long list of nominated noteworthy chemists, physicists and engineers, there have still been other scientists who were overlooked for the prize in chemistry such as Per Teodor Cleve, Jannik Petersen Bjerrum, Ellen Swallow Richards, Alice Ball, Vladimir Palladin, Sergey Reformatsky, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Alexey Favorsky, Rosalind ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [ 1 ] A parody of the Nobel Prizes , the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".