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South Korean writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature this time. The announcement was made on Thursday (October 10) at 1 pm local time in Sweden and 5 pm Bangladesh time.

The Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Professor Hans Ellegren announced the name of the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024 through a ceremony in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, at 1 am local time and 5 pm Bangladesh time.

This information was informed in a press release of the academy. It is said that in 2023, the Norwegian writer and playwright Jon Fosse won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Appreciating his plays and literature, the Swedish Academy said that he brought out many words that remained unspoken in writing.

French poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) won the first Nobel Prize in literature in 1901. All information about the award announcement can be seen directly on the Nobel Prize website. All announcements of this year’s prizes are broadcast live on nobelprize.org and the Nobel Prize Committee’s YouTube channel.

According to tradition, the names of Nobel Prize winners in medicine are announced on October 7, the first Monday in October.

On that day, two American scientists, Victor Ambrose and Gary Ravkan, were jointly announced as the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in medicine or medicine.

Last Tuesday the Royal Swedish Academy of Science John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton was jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The following day, Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the American scientist David Baker with the ‘Computational Protein Design’ and the British scientists Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper was jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ‘Protein Structure Prediction’.