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Nobel Prizes Origin and Oddities Revealed in Wire Dispatch
Alfred Nobel did not become rich from dynamite. The Nobel Foundation invested nine million in Swedish assets with tenured real estate and stocks. Prizes range 32 000 to 50 000 yearly, funded by interest, while Wallace’s novel The Prize stirs debate about the awards and their history.
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Alfred Nobel
Turin
Nobel
Nobel Foundation
Wall Street
Irving Wallace
Wallace
Paris
Andrew Craig
Sinclair Lewis
Eugene O'Neill
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Robert Coughlan
William ‘Faulkner
Faulkner
Stockholm
Sweden