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Ilgin KARLIDAG
An iceberg grounded outside the village of Innarsuit, an island settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, July 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO/ Ritzau Scanpix/Karl PETERSEN/Denmark OUT)
July 15, 2018, 3:04 am
Huge iceberg off Greenland threatens local residents
Island settlement evacuated over fears that 100-meter high glacial mass could break up and flood local village
By Ilgin KARLIDAG
In this photo taken on May 07, 2005 the gold replica of the Nobel medal is on display during the function of the Replacement of the Nobel Medallion at Shantiniketan, about 200 kms north of Calcutta. (AFP PHOTO / Desha-Kalyan CHOWDHURY)
July 8, 2018, 12:30 am
Swedish intellectuals form new literature prize in Nobel protest
After sexual assault scandal leads Academy to cancel 2018 award, authors and writers form alternative honor denouncing ‘bias, arrogance and sexism’
By Ilgin KARLIDAG
In this file photo taken on January 14, 2013, US novelist Philip Roth is projected onscreen as he speaks via satellite video feed to the audience during the PBS panel of 'American Masters Philip Roth: Unmasked' at the 2013 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at the Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, California. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Frederick M. Brown)
May 24, 2018, 5:03 am
Mourning Philip Roth fans bitter over long-standing Nobel snub
The author was often tipped for the literature prize, but the Swedish Academy ignored him
By Gaël BRANCHEREAU and Ilgin KARLIDAG
This picture taken in 1974, in Stockholm shows the Swedish pop group ABBA with its members (L-R) Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus posing after winning the Swedish branch of the Eurovision Song Contest with their song 'Waterloo.' (AFP Photo/ TT News Agency/Olle Lindeborg)
April 28, 2018, 9:50 am
ABBA to release new music after 35 years
Despite repeated vows not to reunite, legendary Swedish group says it felt ‘it could be fun to join forces again… So we did’
By Ilgin KARLIDAG
Beatrice Fihn (L), leader of ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), and Hiroshima nuclear bombing survivor Setsuko Thurlow after accepting the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize during the award ceremony of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize at the city hall in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/Odd ANDERSEN)
December 11, 2017, 3:44 am
Nobel Peace Prize winners warn nuclear war is ‘a tantrum away’
At ceremony snubbed by three Western atomic powers, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons head says denuclearization needed to prevent ‘our mutual destruction’
By Ilgin KARLIDAG
Bob Dylan performing at the Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, March 23, 1975. (Alvan Meyerowitz/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)
June 5, 2017, 10:01 pm
Bob Dylan ponders literary links in ‘extraordinary’ Nobel speech
‘If a song moves you, that’s all that’s important,’ singer says in address sent to Academy along with audio version, days before deadline to claim prize
By Ilgin KARLIDAG
Bob Dylan speaks onstage during the 2015 MusiCares Person of The Year honoring him held at Los Angeles Convention Center on February 6, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Michael Tran/FilmMagic, via JTA)
March 29, 2017, 10:18 am
Suspense mounts over Bob Dylan’s Nobel lecture
Reclusive musician who won coveted literature award must give a customary speech by June 10 to receive $870,000 prize
By Ilgin KARLIDAG
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