Awards & Appointments
Nobel Prizes 2025 for literature, peace and economics
Nobel 2025: Literature to László Krasznahorkai, Peace to María Corina Machado, Economics to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt.
The Literature prize went to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, for work that 'in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art'. The Peace Prize went to María Corina Machado of Venezuela, for her work for democratic rights and a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
The prize in economic sciences went half to Joel Mokyr, for identifying the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress, and half jointly to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.