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  • Nobel Prize 2016: We’re pining for a Nuruddin Farah win

    Nobel Prize 2016: We’re pining for a Nuruddin Farah win

    October marks the announcement of the Nobel Prize for literature; this year we are pining for a Nuruddin Farah win. In 1901, five years after the death of Alfred Nobel, a new prize was awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite…