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The Swedish Academy announces Norway's Jon Fosse as this year's winner of the Nobel literature prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable", says Mats Malm, the academy's permanent secretary. SOUNDBITE
The Nobel prize in economics is awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for helping understand the role of women in the labour market. The Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," says Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. SOUNDBITE
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Pierre Agostini (France), Ferenc Kraus (Austria, Hungary) and Anne L'Huillier (France, Sweden) for their work on electron dynamics. IMAGES
Images of French author Annie Ernaux's books on display in Stockholm as she wins the Nobel Literature Prize. IMAGES
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paaabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, wins the Nobel Medicine Prize, announces the Nobel committee. SOUNDBITE