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The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to women is as follows: nineteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize (16.3% of 110 awarded); [5] eighteen have won the Nobel Prize in Literature (15% of 120 awarded); [6] thirteen have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (5.6% of 230 awarded); [7]
As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. [5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French ...
Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. 2020: Louise Glück: 22 April 1943 New York City, New York, United States 13 October 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 2020: Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Giovanna Giordano: 12 November 1961 Milan, Italy — 2020 [167] [168] Scholastique Mukasonga: 20 December 1956 ...
The five prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. [1] Since 1901, numerous nominators have forwarded their nominations of distinguished individuals or organizations for the prize, and most of these nominators were women. [2]
American poet Louise Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The 77-year-old professor of English at Yale University is the first American to receive the award since Bob ...
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich [1] (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
Yes, awarding the Nobel Prize in literature to Ernaux, a chronicler of illegal abortion, is a political move. But it's also a victory for literature
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing ...