이달 8,9일 노벨문학상 평화상 수상자 선정...누가 될까? Nobel literature, peace prizes to be announced this month; no 'clear frontrunner' this year
Nobel literature, peace prizes to be announced this month; no 'clear frontrunner' this year
Press freedom groups and climate activist Greta Thunberg are making Nobel Peace Prize buzz ahead of next week's award announcements.
Agence France-Presse October 01, 2020 12:16:43 IST
Press freedom groups and climate activist Greta Thunberg are making Nobel Peace Prize buzz ahead of next week's award announcements, in a pandemic year that has highlighted the importance of science and research.
Nobel literature, peace prizes to be announced this month; no 'clear frontrunner' this year
Nobel Prize Medallion. AP
이달 8,9일 노벨문학상 평화상 수상자 선정...누가 될까? 언론자유 단체와 기후운동가 그레타 툰버그가 과학과 연구의 중요성을 부각시킨 전염병인 한 해인 다음 주 수상 발표를 앞두고 노벨 평화상을 떠들썩하게 만들고 있다. 노벨 문학상과 평화상은 각각 10월 8일과 9일에 발표될 예정으로, 유명한 사람들 또는 단체들에게 주어지는 가장 대중적인 관심을 얻는 경향이 있다.
올해, 코로나 바이러스는 과학의 중심에 서 있었다. "대유행병은 인류에게 큰 위기이지만, 과학이 얼마나 중요한지를 보여준다"고 노벨재단 이사장인 Lars Heikensten이것은 과학이 얼마나 중요한지를 보여준다. 노벨상 수상자 연구가 검증되려면 보통 수년이 걸리기 때문에 올해는 바이러스와 직결된 작업에 대해 상을 받지 못할 것으로 예상된다. 그러나 이 바이러스는 수상자를 선출하는 여러 위원회에 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 스웨덴 최대 일간지 다겐스 니헤터의 비욘 위만은 AFP와의 인터뷰에서 "전염병은 가까운 미래에 우리를 사고하는 존재로 변화시켰다"고 말했다. 노벨문학상을 수여하는 스웨덴 아카데미는 "대유행병이 노벨위원회 위원들의 성찰에 어떤 영향을 미칠 것은 분명하다"고 말했다. 그들도 그냥 사람일 뿐이다." 라고 말한다 8일 발표 노벨문학상 수상 예상 英 북메이커, 무라카미 하루키 3위로 꼽아. '도박사들에 인기＝수상자'는 아냐 ©교도통신사 황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 Ki Chul Hwang Conpaper editor curator |
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The Nobel Prizes for literature and peace, to be announced on 8 and 9 October respectively, tend to garner the most public interest, given occasionally to well-known people or organizations.
Thunberg's name has come up in connection with the peace prize, possibility, most likely with other activists/phys.org
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But the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics are usually awarded to research teams toiling for decades far from the limelight, perhaps stars in their fields but rarely known to the public.
This year, the new coronavirus has brought science centre-stage.
"The pandemic is a big crisis for mankind, but it illustrates how important science is," Nobel Foundation head Lars Heikensten said.
No prizes are expected to be awarded this year for work directly linked to the virus, as Nobel prizewinning research usually takes many years to be verified.
"The pandemic has changed us as thinking beings for the foreseeable future," Bjorn Wiman, culture editor at Sweden's biggest daily Dagens Nyheter, told AFP.
For the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, "it's clear the pandemic will have some kind of effect on the reflections of the (Academy's) Nobel Committee members. They're just people too".
"Other things perhaps seem more important now than six months ago," Wiman said.
No real peace strides
Nobel Peace Prize experts meanwhile noted the lack of a clear frontrunner this year.
"There aren't any real major strides forward for peace or peace agreements," Dan Smith, head of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told AFP.
President Donald Trump complained at a Pennsylvania marketing campaign rally Saturday night time that the “faux information” utterly skipped reporting his two Nobel Peace Prizes./Spontac News
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Nobel historian Asle Sveen said Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was his favourite for the prize, a choice echoed by the head of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Henrik Urdal, who also mentioned the Committee to Protect Journalists.
"During conflicts, it's extremely important that journalists contribute to provide information about what's happening, both in order to hold the conflict parties accountable for their actions as well as providing information to the outside world," Urdal told AFP.
Smith and Sveen also both mentioned Greta Thunberg – who has repeatedly urged world leaders to "listen to the science" on climate change – as a possible winner, most likely together with other activists.
"I think the committee may go outside of a narrow peace definition," Smith said.
Other experts have meanwhile suggested the World Health Organisation could take home the prize.
Last year, it went to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for ending a 20-year postwar stalemate with Eritrea.
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