Bob Dylan (real name Robert Allen Zimmerman) is an American singer-songwriter, artist, writer, and film actor. An iconic figure in rock music for over 50 years. According to a survey by Rolling Stone magazine, he is the second most important performer in the history of music after The Beatles, writes Peoples.ru. ...
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the famous American musician Bob Dylan. This was announced by the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sarah Danius. Dylan was awarded for “creating poetic images in the great American song tradition,” notes the Swedish Academy in the official…
All six of the currently known 2016 Nobel laureates from the United States are immigrants. The award in the field of chemistry was awarded with the formulation "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines" to three scientists: Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France), James Fraser Stoddart (USA) and Bernard Feringe (Netherlands), ...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Independent reports that a letter has been sent to the Nobel Committee in which Trump's associates claim that he is “energetically contributing to the cause of peace, preaching his ideology that contains the threat from ...
2015 was wonderful and terrible. The terrorists of the "Islamic State" entered the international arena, the world was replenished with two princesses, scientists found water on Mars, and the Kremlin turned its attention from Donbass to Syria. “Forum” collected the most important and interesting stories of the year. Some of them,…
Pope Francis recognized the second miracle performed by Mother Teresa, which will allow the Catholic nun and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate to be ranked among the Catholic saints next year. Presumably the ceremony of canonization of Mother Teresa, who devoted her life to helping the poor and sick, will be held in ...
In Stockholm, within the framework of the traditional Nobel week, the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich delivered a lecture, who won the 2015 prize in literature. The award for the classic of Russian-language literature was awarded with the wording "for the polyphonic sounding of prose and the perpetuation of suffering and courage." The Nobel Prize Ceremony will take place ...
Economist Angus Deaton of Princeton University has been named the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics for his analysis of consumption, poverty and social security. The Nobel Committee said in a statement that Deaton's work focuses on three main questions - how exactly consumers allocate their expenses to different goods, ...
The Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for democratic changes in the country after the 2011 revolution. According to a press release from the Nobel Committee, the quartet helped the democratization process in Tunisia amid political instability and massive popular protests, providing a peaceful way out of the crisis. As a result, after a few years ...
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich with the wording “for the polyphonic sound of her prose and the perpetuation of suffering and courage”. This was announced by the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Sarah Danius. The laureate's announcement was broadcast live on ...