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FILE - Canadian author Alice Munro is photographed during an interview in Victoria, B.C. Tuesday, Dec.10, 2013. (Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

Scientist Louis E. Brus of Columbia University, poses for a photo with winners of the Nano Science Kavli Prize, during the prize ceremony in Oslo Concert House, Oslo, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008. The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for their work on tiny quantum dots, it was announced on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (Haakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

3 scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots

By David Keyton and Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - The Nobel laureates and the royal family of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Saturday Dec. 10 2022. The Nobel Foundation has withdrawn its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision to invite them “provoked strong reactions.” Saturday's U-turn came after several Swedish lawmakers said they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP, File)

Nobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend ceremonies

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A Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo of a Nobel medal displayed during a ceremony in New York. The foundation that administers the prestigious Nobel awards has reversed its invitation policy and invited Russia, Belarus and Iran, and all members of the Swedish parliament, including a far-right party leader, who earlier have been banned. Vidar Helgesen, head of the private foundation said Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 “that by inviting them “dialogue between those with differing views is being reduced. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Nobel body reverses invitation policy. Russia, Belarus, Iran and far-right leader are welcome

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This photo provide by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft shows Swedish scientist Svante Paabo in Leipzig, Germany, April 27, 2010. On Monday, Oct. 3, 2022 the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on human evolution. (Frank Vinken for Max-Planck-Gesellschaft via AP)

Nobel win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA

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Andrea Ghez is presented with the Nobel Prize in Physics during a ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, Pool)

U.N. food agency receives Nobel prize in online event

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, poet Louise Gluck stands next to President Barack Obama before being awarded with the 2015 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The 2020 Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Gluck "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." The prize was announced Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Stockholm by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

American poet Louise Gluck wins Nobel literature prize

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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2020, file photo, Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson speaks to the media at the EJI Legacy Pavilion in Montgomery, Ala. Stevenson was scheduled to meet with the NBA’s coaches over a Zoom call for a half-hour a few weeks ago. The call went more than three times that long, and from there a running dialogue was born. ( Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)

US lawyer depicted in ‘Just Mercy’ wins ‘alternative Nobel’

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius announces that Bob Dylan is awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature during a presser at the Old Stockholm Stock Exchange Building in Stockholm, Sweden. Sara Danius, the first female head of the prestigious Swedish body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. She was 57. Her family told Swedish news agency TT that Danius passed away early Saturday following a long illness. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT via AP, File )

First female head of Nobel’s literature award body has died

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This Nov. 14, 2018, file photo shows Polish author Olga Tokarczuk at the 69th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)

Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win Nobel literature prizes

By David Keyton - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, file photo, a bust of the Nobel Prize founder, Alfred Nobel on display at the Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm. (Henrik Montgomery/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Controversy stalks Nobel Peace, Literature prizes

By MARK LEWIS - Associated Press

Swedish Academy to announce 2 Nobel literature prizes in Oct

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 file photo, Jean-Claude Arnault, center, is escorted from court after the first day of his appeal trial, in Stockholm. The man with ties to the Swedish Academy that awards the literature Nobel Prize has lost his appeal to have his rape conviction and a two-year prison sentence reversed and been convicted of a second rape. The Svea Court of Appeal on Monday Dec. 3, 2018, gave Jean-Claude Arnault 2.5 years in jail for raping the same woman twice seven years ago. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Man at center of Nobel Literature scandal loses rape appeal

By DAVID KEYTON and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo from April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. The scandal-rocked Swedish Academy said on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, that only half of those who choose the winners of next year's Nobel Literature prize will be members of the body. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Outsiders, academy members to pick Nobel Literature winners

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

File - In this Monday, May 22, 2017 file photo, Human rights activist Nadia Murad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the International Center in Vienna, Austria. Denis Mukwege and Murad have been named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

Nobel Peace laureates demand end to sexual violence in war

By JIM HEINTZ and CARLEY PETESCH and MARK LEWIS - Associated Press

The combo of file photos shows Doctor Denis Mukwege, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, left, on Nov. 26, 2014, and Yazidi woman from Iraq, Nadia Murad on Dec. 13, 2016, as they both address the European parliament in Strasbourg, France. The Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, was awarded to the Congolese doctor and a Yazidi former captive of the Islamic State group for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. (AP Photos/Christian Lutz, file)

Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad win Nobel Peace Prize; award honors fight against sexual violence

By Mark Lewis and Jim Heintz - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 24, 2016 file photo, US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold, speaks after winning the Millennium Technology Prize 2016 during the awards ceremony in Helsinki, Finland. Frances Arnold, US, George P Smith US and Gregory P Winter of Britain have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)

Chemistry Nobel for using evolution to create new proteins

By MALCOLM RITTER and JIM HEINTZ and CHRISTOPHER CHESTER - Associated Press

In this Sept. 19, 2018, file photo, Jean-Claude Arnault arrives at the district court for the start of court proceedings in Stockholm. Arnault, a French citizen who is a major cultural figure in Sweden, is at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that has tarnished the academy and forced it to take a year off in choosing who should get the prestigious literature prize. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP, File)

Jean-Claude Arnault, man at center of Nobel Literature scandal, convicted of rape

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo dated Friday, April 17, 2015, a national library employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia. Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards on the planet but the aura of this year's announcements has been dulled by questions over why so few women have entered the pantheon, particularly in the sciences. The march of Nobel announcements begins Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, with the physiology/medicine prize. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Nobel Prizes still struggle with wide gender disparity

By MARK LEWIS - Associated Press

Charles Kao, Nobel-winning optical fiber pioneer, dies at 84

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