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The
Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided...
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Norwegian Nobel committee has decided...
The announcement of the laureate's name is not made on a fixed date,
but is often made on a Friday in mid-October. The announcement takes
place in the Nobel Institute building and has become a major news
event. The Peace Prize is awarded annually on 10 December, the day
on which Alfred Nobel died in 1896. From 1905 until 1946, the actual
ceremony was held at the Nobel Institute. From 1947 on, the setting
was the Aula of the University of Oslo. In 1990, the event
was moved to the Oslo City Hall. Unlike the prize awarding ceremony
in Stockholm, it is the Chairman of the Nobel Committee, and not
the King, who presents the diploma and the medal. This is meant
to emphasize the independence of the Nobel Committee. The Norwegian
King is present at the ceremony, however, as are the members of
Government and parliament, and an invited audience. Several hundred
seats are reserved for people with special reasons for wishing to
attend particular ceremonies, e.g. people who have themselves been
involved in the activities for which the laureate is being awarded
the prize. Later the same day, the Nobel Committee hosts a banquet
in honour of the laureate, with specially invited guests. As a rule,
laureates deliver a so-called Nobel Lecture in connection with or
shortly after the award ceremony. The lectures, and brief accounts
of the ceremonies, are subsequently published in the annual book
series Les Prix Nobel, both at web sites of the Nobel e-museum
and that of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
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