0
0
The two journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Friday (from 13.00). The Filipino and the Russian will receive this year’s prize for their fight for freedom of expression. They will be presented with their prestigious Nobel medals and diplomas at a corona-cut award ceremony at Oslo City Hall.
Last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), will also be at the ceremony. A festive Nobel banquet in the evening has been cancelled due to Norwegian Corona restrictions.
The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one of the Nobel Prizes to be awarded in Oslo; all others are traditionally presented in Stockholm. Normally, all laureates are awarded on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. This time, however, Ressa and Muratow are the only ones who will receive their awards in person on Nobel Day.
The honorees in the other categories of medicine/physiology, physics, chemistry, literature and economics have already received their awards in advance this week, including the two Germans Klaus Hasselmann in physics and Benjamin List in chemistry on Tuesday. Tributes will be paid to all of these Nobel laureates from afar at another awards ceremony (starting at 4:15 p.m.) in Stockholm on Friday. This year’s laureates were announced in October.
- source: k.at/picture: (2) Facebook
This post has already been read 460 times!
