STOCKHOLM: Subsequent week the world will have a good time peace and mankind’s do-gooders when the winners of the Nobel prizes are revealed in a string of day by day bulletins — as warfare rages in Ukraine.
Not since World Struggle II has a battle been waged between two international locations so near Stockholm and Oslo, the place the celebrated awards for drugs, physics, chemistry, literature and peace have been introduced since 1901, and the newer Economics Prize since 1969.
The spotlight of the week’s bulletins, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will likely be revealed on October 7 in Oslo and can maintain particular significance this yr, consultants say.
“Most certainly is a prize in help of a few of these establishments that acquire info on warfare crimes,” Swedish professor Peter Wallensteen, an knowledgeable on worldwide affairs, instructed AFP.
That might bode nicely for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, or the sleuths at Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat.
The deadline for Peace Prize nominations was on January 31, previous to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however the 5 members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee can suggest their very own decisions at their first assembly of the yr, held on the finish of February after the invasion.
The listing of nominations is secret, however it’s recognized that the names of 343 people or organisations have been submitted this yr.
“Some folks assume that not handing out a prize in any respect can be the strongest assertion on the state of worldwide affairs”, Wallensteen mentioned.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee may resolve to not award the Peace Prize if it deems there isn’t a worthy recipient. The final time that occurred was 50 years in the past.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny would even be an anti-Putin selection, as would Belarusian opposition chief Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
Final yr, one other thorn in Putin‘s facet, journalist Dmitry Muratov, was honoured collectively together with his Philippine colleague Maria Ressa within the title of freedom of knowledge.
Different attainable contenders this yr, consultants say, are anti-corruption group Transparency Worldwide and Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg, with different environmental activists resembling Nisreen Elsaim of Sudan, Chibeze Ezekiel of Ghana and tireless British campaigner David Attenborough additionally doubtlessly within the working.
Whereas the world is at present going through a “safety disaster” in each Ukraine and Taiwan, it could nonetheless “be time for the committee to show in the direction of the environmental disaster”, recommended Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm Worldwide Peace Analysis Institute.
Sometimes much less political is the Literature Prize — however may this yr’s laureate additionally carry an anti-Kremlin message?
Russian writer and outspoken Putin critic Lyudmila Ulitskaya, cited as a attainable winner lately, may get the nod given the present political context, literary critics interviewed by AFP mentioned.
American author Joan Didion, British writer Hilary Mantel and Spain’s Javier Marias have all beforehand been talked about as attainable winners however all of them died over the previous yr and so they will not succeed final yr’s laureate, Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The Swedish Academy, which selects the literature winner, has typically chosen to place the highlight on little-known authors.
After two successive awards on this vein — in 2020 it went to US poet Louise Gluck — it stays to be seen whether or not it is going to select a extra mainstream author this yr.
US novelist Joyce Carol Oates, Japan’s Haruki Murakami, in addition to Michel Houellebecq and Annie Ernaux of France are common authors typically talked about as attainable winners.
“It is more durable than ever to guess given final yr’s laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah… Nobody in your complete world besides the Academy’s members had considered him”, Jonas Thente, literary critic for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, instructed AFP.
He and others mentioned attainable winners may embrace Hungary’s Laszlo Krasznahorkai, US writers Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, and Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse.
The Nobel season opens on Monday with the announcement of the Drugs Prize, adopted by Physics on Tuesday and Chemistry on Wednesday.
Literature follows on Thursday and Peace on Friday, with the Economics Prize — the one one not created in Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel’s will — winding up the season on October 10.
Breast most cancers therapies, advances in prenatal biopsies and mRNA vaccines are seen as attainable fields in rivalry for the Drugs Prize.
Revolutionary makes use of for gentle within the subject of physics and the pioneers of “bioorthogonal” chemistry — which focuses on reactions in a residing system that don’t upset its biochemistry — are seen as potential winners in these disciplines.
Every prize comes with a cheque for 10 million Swedish kronor ($878,000), to be shared if there are a number of laureates in a self-discipline.
Not since World Struggle II has a battle been waged between two international locations so near Stockholm and Oslo, the place the celebrated awards for drugs, physics, chemistry, literature and peace have been introduced since 1901, and the newer Economics Prize since 1969.
The spotlight of the week’s bulletins, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will likely be revealed on October 7 in Oslo and can maintain particular significance this yr, consultants say.
“Most certainly is a prize in help of a few of these establishments that acquire info on warfare crimes,” Swedish professor Peter Wallensteen, an knowledgeable on worldwide affairs, instructed AFP.
That might bode nicely for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, or the sleuths at Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat.
The deadline for Peace Prize nominations was on January 31, previous to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however the 5 members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee can suggest their very own decisions at their first assembly of the yr, held on the finish of February after the invasion.
The listing of nominations is secret, however it’s recognized that the names of 343 people or organisations have been submitted this yr.
“Some folks assume that not handing out a prize in any respect can be the strongest assertion on the state of worldwide affairs”, Wallensteen mentioned.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee may resolve to not award the Peace Prize if it deems there isn’t a worthy recipient. The final time that occurred was 50 years in the past.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny would even be an anti-Putin selection, as would Belarusian opposition chief Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
Final yr, one other thorn in Putin‘s facet, journalist Dmitry Muratov, was honoured collectively together with his Philippine colleague Maria Ressa within the title of freedom of knowledge.
Different attainable contenders this yr, consultants say, are anti-corruption group Transparency Worldwide and Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg, with different environmental activists resembling Nisreen Elsaim of Sudan, Chibeze Ezekiel of Ghana and tireless British campaigner David Attenborough additionally doubtlessly within the working.
Whereas the world is at present going through a “safety disaster” in each Ukraine and Taiwan, it could nonetheless “be time for the committee to show in the direction of the environmental disaster”, recommended Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm Worldwide Peace Analysis Institute.
Sometimes much less political is the Literature Prize — however may this yr’s laureate additionally carry an anti-Kremlin message?
Russian writer and outspoken Putin critic Lyudmila Ulitskaya, cited as a attainable winner lately, may get the nod given the present political context, literary critics interviewed by AFP mentioned.
American author Joan Didion, British writer Hilary Mantel and Spain’s Javier Marias have all beforehand been talked about as attainable winners however all of them died over the previous yr and so they will not succeed final yr’s laureate, Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The Swedish Academy, which selects the literature winner, has typically chosen to place the highlight on little-known authors.
After two successive awards on this vein — in 2020 it went to US poet Louise Gluck — it stays to be seen whether or not it is going to select a extra mainstream author this yr.
US novelist Joyce Carol Oates, Japan’s Haruki Murakami, in addition to Michel Houellebecq and Annie Ernaux of France are common authors typically talked about as attainable winners.
“It is more durable than ever to guess given final yr’s laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah… Nobody in your complete world besides the Academy’s members had considered him”, Jonas Thente, literary critic for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, instructed AFP.
He and others mentioned attainable winners may embrace Hungary’s Laszlo Krasznahorkai, US writers Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, and Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse.
The Nobel season opens on Monday with the announcement of the Drugs Prize, adopted by Physics on Tuesday and Chemistry on Wednesday.
Literature follows on Thursday and Peace on Friday, with the Economics Prize — the one one not created in Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel’s will — winding up the season on October 10.
Breast most cancers therapies, advances in prenatal biopsies and mRNA vaccines are seen as attainable fields in rivalry for the Drugs Prize.
Revolutionary makes use of for gentle within the subject of physics and the pioneers of “bioorthogonal” chemistry — which focuses on reactions in a residing system that don’t upset its biochemistry — are seen as potential winners in these disciplines.
Every prize comes with a cheque for 10 million Swedish kronor ($878,000), to be shared if there are a number of laureates in a self-discipline.
