Perhaps the excited response in Mantel's case, and its punitive tone, has something to do with the fact that she is the most recent laureate of English history novelists.
"I shook the sheet but the ear didn't move, it was sewn on in the middle like a button". The Nobel may put Müller in a line of recent laureates who have their "minorityness" in common: Le Clézio, Jelinek, Kertész, Gao and Szymborska.
The recent Nobel laureates on the MIT Faculty include people born in Japan, India, Mexico, Italy, and Germany, as well as the United States.
More recent laureates include University of Manchester scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who won the 2010 prize.
Several recent laureates have told stories, cannily aligning their speeches with their fiction: an allegory about a blind woman (Toni Morrison); a Crusoe fable (JM Coetzee); a naughty tale of a lab rat awarded a Nobel (Günter Grass).
The recent poet laureate Kay Ryan's "Home to Roost" is another poem often associated with Sept. 11, but it, too, was written before the attacks.
Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya – two Ivy League Indian economists charged with "poverty-denialism" by the recent Nobel laureate Angus Deaton – said in a letter to the Economist that the anti-Muslim pogrom in Modi's Gujarat was actually a "riot".
Theater in the German-speaking world is a whole cultural construct that's hard to compare even to repertory theaters in this country: It has an active writing scene producing challenging, unusual plays (like those of the recent Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian); cutting-edge productions of classics by Schiller and Shakespeare; and relatively little concern about selling tickets.
He is a recent Laureate of the 2008 National Stepping Stone Competition in Canada.
To date, 15 scientists have been awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their work, which either directly or indirectly contained game theory principles (very recent laureate dealing with the game theory is Jean Tirole, for the year 2014).
