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What is the Nobel Prize and how do you win one? Peace Prize and more explained.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 days ago...Prize in physiology or medicine: Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19” Nobel Prize in literature: Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to...
Alice Munro: the short-story writer who was 'as good as it gets'
The Week via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBut this hardly mattered, said The New Yorker, because as the citation for her Nobel Prize in ...
The Queen of the Beach Read Hangs Up Her Bikini
The Wall Street Journal· 13 hours agoYork. She moved permanently to Nantucket in 1994. Two years later, she was off to the prestigious creative-writing graduate program at the University of...
Opinion: Dylan at 83
Idaho State Journal· 3 days agoBob Dylan, arguably America’s greatest songwriter and a Nobel Prize winner for literature, will turn 83 on May 24, 2024. Dylan has always been...
Happy Birthday! Bob Dylan | 99.7 The Fox | Jeff K
iHeartRadio· 4 days agoBorn on this day in 1941, Robert Allen Zimmerman (pka Bob Dylan) the American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure...
Daywatch: Our flag at half-staff
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoGood morning, Chicago. This Memorial Day, assuming you wake up early enough, you may notice the United States flag at half-staff. When you get up matters, because on Memorial Day, and only on ...
Biblioracle: Remembering Alice Munro, a giant of contemporary literature
Chicago Tribune· 3 days agoCanadian short story writer, and 2013 Nobel laureate in fiction Alice Munro died on May 13 at the...
Rick Steves’ Europe: Stockholm’s delights span the ages
Bristol Herald Courier· 7 days agoWith its steel-and-glass Modernist buildings and dedication to green living, Stockholm has the feel...
Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ Wins the International Booker Prize
New York Times· 6 days agoTranslated by Michael Hofmann, it’s the first novel originally written in German to win the major...
Robert Downey Jr.’s Broadway Jitters: Why Oscar Winner Is Nervous About Great White Way Debut
Closer Weekly via Yahoo News· 5 days agoRobert Downey Jr. is gearing up for his star turn on the Great White Way but is nervous about...