José Echegaray was the first politician to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1904, sharing it with Frédéric Mistral. He was also a successful playwright and government minister in Spain.
The first politician to win the Nobel Prize for literature was José Echegaray. He shared the Nobel prize for literature with Frédéric Mistral in the year 1904. José Echegaray was minister of public works and finance in the Spanish government. In addition to his successful career in government, he was a prolific playwright and was awarded the Novel in Literature Prize for his contributions to Spanish drama.
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All Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, with the exception of the Peace Prize, which the creator of the prize Alfred Nobel unnecessarily specified in Oslo, Norway.
The oldest man and woman ever to win Nobel Prizes were awarded in the same year: 2007. Economics winner Leonid Hurwicz was 90, and literature winner Doris Lessing was 87.
Four US presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize: Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as one vice president: Al Gore.
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