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October 12th, 2007 at 10:41 am

Doris Lessing, Al Gore and UN Climate Panel win Nobels

Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her citation reads:

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
“that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”
Doris Lessing

The citation for the IPCC and Al Gore reads

The Nobel Peace Prize 2007
“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.

These links will be work returning to after December 10, when the Prizes are awarded and the Laureates’ speeches will be online.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007

Nobel Peace Prize 2007

 

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