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What you need to know
- The announcement will be made at 11:00 a.m. CEST (0900 GMT)
- The Peace Prize committee is the only one that regularly recognizes achievements from the previous year
- It has been awarded 106 times to 143 laureates between 1901 and 2025
- The prize carries a cash award of 12 million Swedish kronor (around $1.2 million; €1 million)
- This week, Nobel laureates have already been named in medicine, physics, chemistry, and literature.
Below is all the news and views, previews and reviews surrounding the award of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
Skip next section The 2026 Nobel winners10/09/2026October 9, 2026
The 2026 Nobel winners
This week, laureates have already been named in medicine, physics, chemistry, and literature. The Nobel week will conclude on Monday with the announcement of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
The winners of this year’s Nobel prizes
Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries that provide new insights into how we might treat blindness, depression, addiction and dementia.
Physics: Francis Halzen for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and discovery of high-energy neutrinos, described as “ghostly messengers from space.”
Chemistry: Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their groundbreaking discoveries related to the origin of chirality and life’s building blocks.
Literature: Anne Carson for her “bold and inventive oeuvre” that combines the classical with the modern.
https://p.dw.com/p/5NzXXSkip next section Nobel Peace Prize: The winners forced to stay away 10/09/2026October 9, 2026
Nobel Peace Prize: The winners forced to stay away
Maria Corina Machado was unable to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in person last year. But the Venezuelan is not the only winner unable to attend the ceremony, with incarceration a common historical thread.
Here are some of the other most notable absentees.
https://p.dw.com/p/5NzK7Skip next section The 2025 laureate Maria Corina Machado … and Donald Trump10/09/2026October 9, 2026
The 2025 laureate Maria Corina Machado … and Donald Trump
The recipient of last year’s prize was Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”
However, she was unable to collect the award herself in the December ceremony as the ruling Socialist government in Caracas warned she would make herself a fugitive if she “fled” Venezuela.
Machado’s daughter Ana Corina Sosa Machado accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf and delivered remarks that her mother had written for the occasion.
“It reminds the world that democracy is essential to peace,” read the remarks. “And the most important lesson Venezuelans can share with the world is a lesson forged on a long and difficult path: If we want democracy, we must be prepared to fight for freedom.”
Machado then gave her medal to US President Donald Trump in January as she sought Washington’s support for her efforts.
Trump said just this week that he was “very honored to receive it indirectly last time by the recipient, who said nobody in history deserves it more than President Trump.”
https://p.dw.com/p/5NzHbSkip next section Controversial Nobel Peace Prize winners10/09/2026October 9, 2026
Controversial Nobel Peace Prize winners
Sabrina Müller-Plotnikow
From Yasser Arafat to the UN: Why did they receive a Nobel Peace Prize? It’s a question asked almost every year in Oslo. Criticism of the award is as old as the prize itself.
https://p.dw.com/p/5NzFYSkip next section IN DEPTH — The curse of Nobelitis10/09/2026October 9, 2026
IN DEPTH — The curse of Nobelitis
After being chosen for one of the world’s most prestigious awards, some Nobel laureates lose touch with reality and suddenly start spouting unscientific nonsense.
They’re afflicted by what some have called “Nobelitis.”
Read our analysis of what happens when winning a Nobel Prize can give you delusions of grandeur.
https://p.dw.com/p/5NzESSkip next section Welcome to our coverage10/09/2026October 9, 2026
Welcome to our coverage
Guten Tag from the DW newsroom in Bonn, Germany. Thanks for joining us as we count down to the announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner.
There will be a livestream of the event from around 0845 GMT at the top of the blog, complete with analysis of the ceremony and the award.
Nobel judges are banned from discussing and announcing the nominations, so any predictions are going to be guesswork at this stage.
The committee recieved nominations for 287 candidates this year. Just over a quarter of them are organizations.
No one is allowed to nominate themselves, but US President Donald Trump has said this week that he deserves to win.
All will be revealed shortly.
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