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The Swedish Academy announces Norway's Jon Fosse as this year's winner of the Nobel literature prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable", says Mats Malm, the academy's permanent secretary. SOUNDBITE
Head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, says they "hope" Iran would release jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi so she could attend the prize ceremony in December. "If the Iranian authorities make the right decision, they will release her," she tells a press conference after announcing Mohammadi was this year's prize winner. SOUNDBITE
Images of French author Annie Ernaux's books on display in Stockholm as she wins the Nobel Literature Prize. IMAGES
Images of Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah's books in Stockholm after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021. Gurnah has published 10 novels and a number of short stories, and his work touches on colonialism and refugee life. IMAGES
People gather outside the airport in Dhaka to welcome Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus who has returned to Bangladesh to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. IMAGES