OSLO, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian journalist and human rights activist imprisoned in Tehran, the Norwegian Nobel committee announced on Friday.
The Nobel “season”, which opened on Monday, notably rewarded two French people with the Nobel Prize in physics, Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier alongside the Hungarian Ferenc Krausz.
The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 11 million Swedish crowns (947,125.73 euros), will be awarded in Oslo on December 10, Alfred Nobel’s birthday.
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, will be awarded on Monday. (Written by Kate Entringer, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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