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Unlike the Nobel laureates in literature and sciences, the peace prize is not awarded by the Swedish Academy (in Stockholm). It's awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee (in Oslo).

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> Unlike the Nobel laureates in literature and sciences the peace prize is not awarded by the Swedish Academy (in Stockholm).

Note that the Swedish Academy only awards the Literature prize. Nobels in Physics and Chemistry are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel in Physiology or Medicine. Thus, only the Literature prize is impacted by this.

> the Karolinska Institutet

The 't' at the end of 'Institutet' is the article, so you can write 'Karolinska Institutet' or 'the Karolinska Institute'.

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Its name is "Karolinska Institutet", so you can't reasonably translate it to "the Karolinska Institute", because at that point the first part if its name is just an untranslated adjective. And if you arrive at "the Carolean Institute" people no longer understand what you're referring to.

Sorry for furthering the pedantry.

«sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English[3][4]»[0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolinska_Institute

That's not accurate: the Swedish Academy only selects the Literature prize. The medicine prize is selected by the Karolinska Institute and the physics/chemistry/economics prizes are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (which is an entirely different organization from "the Swedish Academy").

Technically, non of these organizations "award" the prizes, the prizes are awarded by the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish National Bank, the Riksbank (only the economics prize). They just select the winners.

I know. The notion that Republicans would propose Trump as recipient for the Literature Nobel Prize was the joke.

I do think a lot of those tweets are a work of fiction, quite original and influential. And unlike a lot of Nobel worthy literature they are also quite entertaining and reach a wide audience.

So it's not entirely impossible that he might one day receive it ;-)

His best work is already collected in an appropriate format:

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Beautiful_Poetry_...

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