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[ad_1] Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. According to international media reports, Fosse was honoured for “his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable”, the awarding body, the Swedish Academy, said on Thursday. One of his country’s most-performed dramatists, Fosse, 64, has written some 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the academy who announced the prize in Stockholm, said he reached Fosse by telephone to inform him of the prize and that the writer was driving in the countryside and promised to drive home carefully. Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel literature committee, said Fosse’s work is rooted “in the language and nature of his Norwegian background”. Last year, French author Annie Ernaux won the prize for what the Swedish Academy called “the courage and clinical acuity” of books rooted in her sm

[ad_1] PHNOM PENH: A court in Cambodia on Monday barred three environmental activists who are serving suspended prison sentences for their advocacy work from travelling to Sweden next month to receive the prestigious Right Livelihood Award. A copy of a letter from the Phnom Penh Municipal Court's chief prosecutor, Chreung Khmao, said the trip by the members of the group Mother Nature Cambodia was "not necessary." The letter, seen by The Associated Press, came in response to a travel request from the activists. Thon Ratha, 31, Phuong Keo Reaksmey, 22, and Long Khunthea, 25, asked for permission to make a November 24-Dec, 1 trip to receive the award, which is sometimes characterised as the "Alternative Nobel." Mother Nature Cambodia was co-winner of the award this year along with Phyllis Omido, a Kenyan community activist, and SOS Mediterranee, a humanitarian group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. The Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Founda

[ad_1] The history of mRNA vaccines The decades of development behind mRNA vaccine technology 02:32 Stockholm — The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Hungarian Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the U.S. for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 . Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly, announced the award Monday in Stockholm. "Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system, the laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest