The foundations of the Nobel Prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth for its establishment.

最初的诺贝尔文学奖于1895年制定，这是缘于诺贝尔当时写下的遗嘱，奖金来自于他的大部分财富。

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They will also receive a gold medal and a diploma from the Swedish king on December 10,the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

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Relatively few people know of Alfred Nobel as the inventor of dynamite, but he will forever be known as the creator of the Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel prizes for literature, economics, medicine, and the sciences.

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