November 1, 2021 8:48 PM

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Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony to be held in-person event this year

<span style="color: #222222;">The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided this year's Peace Prize award ceremony will be an in-person event taking place in Oslo on December 10. The decision comes in contrast to the move by the Nobel Foundation not to hold a ceremony and a banquet for the laureates in Stockholm for the second year running. All but one of the Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm. The Peace Prize is the only one awarded in Oslo.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Last year, no physical ceremony took place in Oslo due to the pandemic, when the United Nations' World Food Programme won the award. Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov have won the Nobel Peace Prize this year. In a statement, the Nobel Committee said that it is expecting both the winners to attend the ceremony.</span><br />

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