The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011 honored the Swedish poet, Tomas Transtroemer.
The Nobel Peace Prize was announced this afternoon as a highly agreed option and will be less controversial than last year, the award committee chairman said.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman, for their remarkable activities for feminism.
Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims - two American scientists were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics for their studies of macroeconomic policy.