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The Nobel institutions say bluntly that once a prize is awarded it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred — a finality grounded in the Nobel Foundation’s statutes and the practice of the prize comm...
No — there is no credible, documented ban barring Donald Trump from winning any future Nobel prizes; claims that he has been "permanently disqualified" circulated on social media and have been contrad...
The Nobel Committee evaluates Peace Prize candidates primarily against the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will — who “has done the most or the best” work for fraternity between nations, reduction/abolition o...
The Nobel Peace Prize accepts nominations only from a defined list of “qualified nominators” (including parliamentarians, university professors in certain fields, past laureates, and senior judges) an...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the Nobel Peace Prize on the Friday of the first full week of October — in recent practice that has been the second Friday of October (for example, the 2025 lau...
The key fixed dates for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize cycle are: , the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s early meeting on , the laureate announcement on (at 11:00 CEST), and the award ceremony on in Oslo. Thes...
The Nobel Peace Prize nomination process is invitation-based and tightly regulated: valid nominations must be submitted by 31 January each year, nominations are kept secret for 50 years, and the Norwe...
The Nobel committees have, as a rule, treated post‑award political controversy by holding decisions as final, refusing to rescind or transfer prizes, and largely declining to publicly police laureates...
Publicly announced Nobel Peace Prize nominations are rare because the Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps nominations secret for 50 years; nonetheless a growing number of nominators do disclose their own ...
The Nobel Committee evaluates Peace Prize candidates against the language of Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will — chiefly “the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reductio...
Individuals cannot validly nominate themselves for the Nobel Peace Prize; the right to submit nominations is reserved to specified categories such as members of national assemblies, university profess...
The Norwegian Storting (parliament) appoints the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee by electing them for six‑year terms, with re‑election permitted, and instructs that the committee’s compo...
Geir Lundestad, longtime director and non‑voting secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, later wrote and told reporters that the committee had hoped the 2009 prize would strengthen Barack Obama bu...
The Nobel Peace Prize’s history is littered with awards that later generated institutional regret, public reversals or sustained controversy — notable cases include the long-debated omission of Mahatm...
María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Venezuela, publicly offered to “give” or “share” her prize with U.S. President Donald Trump as an expression of gratitude after U.S. forc...
A convicted felon can be nominated for and — based on available public rules and precedent reporting — potentially receive a Nobel Prize because the Nobel statutes set out who may submit nominations a...
The Nobel statutes do not grant organizations themselves a free-standing right to submit nominations; rather, nomination rights are vested in people who occupy certain offices — many of which are orga...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” a decision made les...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s official citation awarded President Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between...
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is chosen by the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee, appointed by Norway’s parliament, from among several hundred nominations received each year; for 2025 the committee...