https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A new six-storey Nobel Center housing a museum and events related to the Nobel Prize is to be built on Stockholm's waterfront, after the city council granted a building permit for the project late Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20260327/stockholm-to-get-new-waterfront-nobel-center Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:34:53 +0100 stockholm-to-get-new-waterfront-nobel-center Jila Mossaed came to Sweden as a 38-year-old poet in 1986, fleeing Iran. Three decades later, she became the first foreigner inducted into Sweden's highest language authority, the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. https://www.thelocal.se/20241009/from-refugee-poet-to-swedish-academy-the-forest-accepted-me-faster-than-the-people-did Wed, 09 Oct 2024 08:59:37 +0200 from-refugee-poet-to-swedish-academy-the-forest-accepted-me-faster-than-the-people-did The social event of the year was back on Saturday night after two years of pandemic absence. Here's what you need to know about the dishes, the guests, the glitz and the gossip. https://www.thelocal.se/20221210/key-points-whats-happening-at-swedens-2022-nobel-banquet Sat, 10 Dec 2022 21:56:04 +0100 key-points-whats-happening-at-swedens-2022-nobel-banquet The organisers of the Nobel Prize ceremony on Friday declared Iran's ambassador was not welcome at the glittering event in December, just days after issuing a similar snub to Russia and Belarus. https://www.thelocal.se/20221028/iranian-ambassador-refused-invite-to-nobel-prize-banquet Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:17:27 +0200 iranian-ambassador-refused-invite-to-nobel-prize-banquet A trio that included Ben Bernanke, former head of the US Federal Reserve, on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for research on banking's role in avoiding collapses during financial crises. https://www.thelocal.se/20221010/former-fed-chief-ben-bernanke-among-nobel-winning-trio Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:00:05 +0200 former-fed-chief-ben-bernanke-among-nobel-winning-trio The French novelist Annie Ernaux has won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy accounced at a press conference on Thursday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.se/20221006/french-novelist-annie-ernaux-wins-swedens-nobel-literature-prize Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:04:05 +0200 french-novelist-annie-ernaux-wins-swedens-nobel-literature-prize It is not only Svante Pääbo’s contribution to evolutionary biology that makes him so interesting, but his own personal story as well, says David Crouch. https://www.thelocal.se/20221006/opinion-why-swedens-nobel-prizewinner-would-be-a-great-dinner-guest Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:48:24 +0200 opinion-why-swedens-nobel-prizewinner-would-be-a-great-dinner-guest The Nobel Chemistry Prize was on Wednesday awarded to a trio of chemists from the US and Denmark who laid the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry. https://www.thelocal.se/20221005/danish-and-us-chemists-win-nobel-prize-for-work-on-click-chemistry Wed, 05 Oct 2022 14:20:05 +0200 danish-and-us-chemists-win-nobel-prize-for-work-on-click-chemistry A trio of physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics that have paved the way for quantum computers, networks and secure encrypted communication. https://www.thelocal.se/20221004/three-physicists-win-swedens-nobel-prize-for-experiments-with-entangled-photons Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:48:37 +0200 three-physicists-win-swedens-nobel-prize-for-experiments-with-entangled-photons Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the United States and Aziz Sancar, a Turkish-American, won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for work on how cells repair damaged DNA. https://www.thelocal.se/20151007/trio-wins-nobel-chemistry-prize-for-dna-repair-work Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:25:55 +0200 trio-wins-nobel-chemistry-prize-for-dna-repair-work