Nobel Peace Prize for Iranian prisoner; award goes to Narges Safie Mohammadi who fought for women's rights

OSLO: This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to a prisoner in Iran. Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi is the recipient of the award. The award is for her fight for women's rights. Narges Mohammadi, who is serving a prison sentence for his efforts against the Iranian regime's human rights violations, heard the news of the award in prison.

Narges Mohammadi is a person who has been arrested 13 times as part of her fights for human rights against the Iranian regime. She has been sentenced to 31 years in prison without a proper trial on various charges. The Nobel Prize Committee announced in Oslo that this award is for Narges Mohammadi's fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting the freedom and human rights of all. The committee pointed out that Narges's fight is for the right to freedom of expression and against the laws that require women to stay away from public places by covering their bodies completely.

At the same time, this year's Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the world-renowned Norwegian writer, playwright and poet Jon Fosse. The Royal Swedish Academy said that Fosse, 64, is being awarded for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.

He was born in 1959 in Haugesund, Norway. Fosse's writing empire spans over forty plays, novels, essays, poetry collections, children's literature and translation. It started with the novel Red, Black (1983). His debut play was Some One is Going to Come (1992). His first published play was 'And We Will Never Be Parted (1994)'. His works have been translated into many languages ​​including English. Jon Fosse is a writer in the ranks of geniuses like Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernard and Franz Kafka and one of the best playwrights in Europe today. His writings are characterized by the intricacies of the mind. Fosse paints the realities of anxiety, insecurity, life and death, love and marriage.