REVEALED: 26 - The Real Truth

France's Annie Ernaux says Nobel win a 'sign of hope' for women writers

French writer Annie Ernaux said she hoped that her Nobel Prize was "a sign of hope for all female writers", who "have not yet gained legitimacy as producers of written works". She made the comment in a lecture ahead of the official prize ceremony on Saturday in Sweden.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 10, 2022

Nobel prize an institution ‘for men’, says literature laureate Annie Ernaux

Awards are ‘bound to tradition’, says French writer, praised by academy for ‘the courage and clinical acuity of her work’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2022

French Nobel Laureate says men must change attitudes now

French author Annie Ernaux who won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, says men need to change their attitudes now, before women attain full equality with them

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

‘Iran's government has committed unpardonable acts,’ says Shirin Ebadi

In her first interview since the start of this year's uprising in Iran, lawyer Shirin Ebadi talks to FRANCE 24 about the Iranian people's desire for democracy. Ebadi was Iran's first female judge before losing her right to practice in 1979 amid the creation of the Islamic Republic. She has…

France 24 · Nov 22, 2022

For East Timor president, ASEAN membership a lifelong dream

It was as a budding diplomat in the 1970s that Jose Ramos-Horta, a man who would go on to win the Nobel prize for his fight for East Timor's independence, first raised the idea of his country joining Southeast Asia's economic and political bloc.

Reuters · Nov 12, 2022

Mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin crowns great year for French science

Hugo Duminil-Copin became the latest mathematics professor from the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) to win the prestigious Fields Medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematicians.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 9, 2022

Four common misconceptions about quantum physics

Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it dazzling and intriguing. When the 2022 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton…

The Conversation · Nov 8, 2022

Burglars steal more gold when the price is high – new research

Are criminals rational? In his groundbreaking work of 1968, Gary Becker argued that they are. The American economist, who would go on to win the Nobel prize in economics in 1992, theorised that individuals engage in crime only if the returns are greater than the returns from engaging in legal…

The Conversation · Nov 2, 2022

Nobel winners call attention to Egypt political prisoners

A group of winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature have urged world leaders to raise human rights issues as they visit Egypt for the COP27 climate change conference

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2022

British-Egyptian hunger striker may die in prison, Nobel laureates warn world leaders attending Cop27

Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been on hunger strike for six months and will refuse water from 6 November, the first day of the climate summit

The Guardian - AU · Nov 2, 2022