No Nobel Prize in Literature this Year

                   

Alfred Nobel -The Man behind The Nobel prize

The Swedish Academy has decided to Postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.

According to the Swedish Foundation Act,the Nobel Foundation is ultimately responsible for fulfilling the intentions in the  will of Alfred Nobel.

For the first time since 1949, the secretive jury will not unveil a winner this autumn.Between 1901 and 2017,the noble prizes and the prize in Economic sciences were awarded 585 times

Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 21, 1833.

In 1895 signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be divided into five parts and to be used for Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace to "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind."

The youngest Noble Laureates is Malala Yousafzai ,Won the Nobel Prize in 12 july 1997 for Peace 2014.

The Indian citizen Who Won the Nobel Prize. 

 

>>Rabindranath Tagore                 – Literature 1913

>>CV Raman                                 – Physics 1930

 >>Hargovind khurana                   – Medicine 1968

>>Mother Teresa                            –  Peace 1979.

>>Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar – Physics 1983

>>Amartya Sen                              – Economic Studies 1998.

>>Venkatraman Ramalrishan         – Chemistry 2009

>>Kailash Satyarthi                        – Peace 2014