Articles by: Manisha Lalloo
2025 economic sciences prize: One-minute crash course
How to sustain economic growth What’s the link between innovation and economic growth?In the last 200 years, we have, for the first time in human history, seen sustained economic growth. The 2025 economic sciences laureates have explained how this trend has been possible and what it needs to continue. They have shown that technological innovation…
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A strange mirror: a conversation with Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk speaks about the transformative power of reading and writing, and their profound impact on our mental health.
moreThe role of circadian biology
Nobel Prize laureate Michael Rosbash, who unearthed the secret of our biological clocks, discusses what we know about sleep.
moreHow to think like a laureate
Have you ever wondered how Nobel Prize laureates think about the world? Take a look at how six laureates tackled challenges they faced in life and research, and how the lessons they learnt can help us navigate our own lives. This series of animated videos is a collaboration between BBC World Service and Nobel Prize…
moreWhat to read: Jon Fosse
Want to get started with 2023 literature laureate , but don’t know which book to pick up first? We spoke to Anders Olsson, Chairman of the The Nobel Committee for Literature who gave us three of his Fosse favourites. Stengd gitar My first choice is Fosse’s second novel Stengd gitar (1985), which presents us with…
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Rana Ayyub: “Misinformation threatens to be the new ‘true information'”
Why should people attend the Nobel Prize Summit Truth, Trust and Hope this May? Indian investigative journalist, Rana Ayyub, who will be joining us for the summit, warns why it is a now or never moment. Why has misinformation and disinformation become such a problem at this moment in time? “Misinformation and disinformation have become…
moreSolution Sessions
Click here to go back to our full. Turn discussions into action with our digital partner events Each of these sessions focused on topics relating to the summit and are either hybrid and/or on-site. Here is a list of each event and scroll down for further information and registration: Fighting disinformation Regulate? Legislate? ACTIVATE! Untold…
moreManagement trainee till Nobelstiftelsen
Nobelstiftelsen ansvarar för att förvalta Alfred Nobels förmögenhet och för att intentionerna i Nobels testamente följs. I Nobelsfären ingår även andra organisationer som med Nobelpriset som utgångspunkt informerar om, inspirerar till och engagerar sig i insatser till mänsklighetens största nytta: Nobelprismuseet, Nobel Prize Outreach, Nobels fredscenter i Oslo – och inte minst nya Nobel Center…
moreWhat to read: Books by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Curious about 2021 literature laureate but can’t decide which of his books to start with? We asked three members of the literature committee at the Swedish Academy – who decide on the year’s Nobel Prize in Literature – to give us their recommendations. Anne Swärd on By the Sea In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novels the protagonists…
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