Still, there's one composer who may win the prize for operas based on wide-ranging sources.
At the other end of the scale, the Nordics undoubtedly win the prize for cleanliness.
Mantel's win also makes her the first person in Man Booker history to win the prize for a direct sequel.
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This gentler Conservatism (and some reckless spending) helped Mr Major win the prize for which the party had sacrificed his predecessor: an unexpected victory in the general election of 1992.
Tipped as a potential Nobel prize winner for many years, Transtroemer is the eighth European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in the last 10 years.
For example, Karol Wojtyla, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan did not win the peace prize for winning the Cold War (and, consequently, also keeping Europe pretty darn peaceful), but they did award the prize to Mikhail Gorbachev for losing the Cold War.
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Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Undeterred, Yoshimoto, 32, says her dream is to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
His academic peers reckon that he is a good tip to win the Nobel prize for medicine one day.
Abdus Salam, the first Muslim scientist to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, reflected upon this parting of ways.
The question has consumed the country since Orhan Pamuk became the first Turk to win the Nobel prize for literature (or indeed any Nobel).
It was there, in 1975, that he became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, an award given to newspaper writers.
Meanwhile, Anglo-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis is a favourite to win the leading actor prize for his turn as Lincoln in Spielberg's historical drama.
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And it was the enthusiasm of her mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, that drew Dr. Carol Greider to the groundbreaking work in genetics that would win both of them the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Wangari Muta Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who won the 2004 Peace Prize, said the win for Obama, whose father was Kenyan, will help Africa move forward.
Last year, PJ Harvey became the first act to win the Mercury Prize twice, for her album Let England Shake, after previously winning in 2001.
For an American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize can only be good for the U.S. The Republican right needs to understand that and not repeat its performance of last week.
Because it was only the third film in Sundance history to win both the jury prize and the audience prize for best drama at the January festival, a rare Sundance feat.
There is a strong draft-Gore movement going on right now and the former vice president could parlay his Nobel Peace Prize win into a bid for the White House.
But it failed to win the Bafta panel's award for the best feature film - that prize went to The Incredibles.
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The only writer to win a Nobel Prize for his stories in Arabic has died.
Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke's old-age love story "Amour" won for best international film, a possible prelude to the Oscars, where his film is the favorite to win the foreign-language prize and is nominated for best picture.
This year, the math says "Gladiator" is the best bet for the top prize -- 2-1 to win best picture.
The group, who last year reached the semi-finals of Sky's Must Be the Music competition, thanked their travelling fans for helping them win both their genre category and the overall prize.
But the design that is best to win that prize is not necessarily the best design to operate as a commercial vehicle for space tourism, where having low recurring costs is more vital.
China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
Never mind that this technique, in 2003, was to win Mr Lauterbur a joint share in the Nobel prize for medicine.
British author Hilary Mantel could be the first person to win all three UK major book prizes after being nominated for the Woman's Prize For Fiction.
Should he win the Goncourt, France's top literary prize, for which his book has just been shortlisted, the cronyism charges will re-surface.
Mantel, whose novel is part of a trilogy about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, already holds the record for being the first woman and the first living British author to win the Man Booker Prize twice.
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