Adam Smith

The "master of the contemporary short story" on being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature—and her decision to retire.

BY Nobelprize.org 9 October 2013

Never before has anyone been made a Peace Laureate so early into their term of office. Nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize closed just 11 days after he took office.

BY Adam Smith 8 October 2009

'It doesn't belong to human civilization, and we can change that, we can make people come out of poverty ... the only thing we have to do is to redesign our institutions and policies, and there will be no people who will be suffering from poverty'

BY Adam Smith 12 October 2006

'And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for'

BY Adam Smith 11 October 2006