OSLO (AP) — The winner of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize is being announced Friday, chosen by a panel of experts in Norway from a list of just over 350 nominations.
Unlike the other Nobel prizes that are selected and announced in Stockholm, founder Alfred Nobel decreed that the peace prize be decided and awarded in Oslo by the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee.
People who can make nominations include former Nobel Peace Prize winners, members of the committee, heads of states, members of parliaments and professors of political science, history and international law.
A day earlier, the Nobel committee awarded Norwegian writer Jon Fosse the prize for literature.
Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.
Persons:
Vladimir Putin, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Aung, Kyi, Alfred Nobel, Jon Fosse, Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, Alexei Ekimov, Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Karikó, Drew Weissman
Organizations:
Belarusian, United Nations, Peace, Bank of Sweden, Economic Sciences
Locations:
OSLO, Norway, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Stockholm, Oslo, Norwegian, U.S, Swedish, French, Hungarian