We will learn the name of the winner today, but the official award-giving ceremony only will be in December – on 10 December, to be precise, the day of Nobel’s death.
That’s been the tradition since the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901.
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There is always lots of speculations and chatter about “ooh, so and so was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize,” but it doesn’t mean that much.
All nominations must by submitted by 31 January, preferably online, but members of the Nobel Committee may add further names to the list during their first meeting, which last year was held in late February.
After that, the list is closed, and the committee works on a short list, which is then submitted to permanent advisers for their reports.
The final decision is made quite late, usually at the very last meeting before the announcement, in early October.
For what it’s worth, prediction markets have shifted again, putting Kuleba and Save Ukraine back in the first place, ahead of Navalnaya in the second.
It’s almost as if simply no one knows.
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It’s one hour to go until we learn who is the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
10am UK, 11am CEST.
Last year’s peace prize was won by Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as “a brutal, authoritarian state”.
She later presented her award to Donald Trump, meeting him in the White House, nearly a fortnight after he ordered the abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
In his 1895 will, Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel wrote:
The first awards were given in 1901, and here we are, 125 years later!
The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor, which is about €1.1m or £910,000.
Morning opening: Who will win the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize?
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this morning, with all sorts of speculation about who could be this year’s worthy winner.
(Despite his hopes, Donald Trump is very unlikely to win it, again.)
Mykola Kuleba and Save Ukraine who work on rescuing Ukrainian children abducted by Russia during the war have long been among the favourites, alongside Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms.
But in the last few hours, Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Alexei Navalny, has gone straight to the very top of the list on some popular prediction websites. Could she be the one – just days after Vladimir Putin’s birthday in Russia?
Well: no one really knows, except a handful of members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Its chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes will appear in front of cameras at 10am UK time (11am CEST) this morning to give us the name of the winner.
We will bring it live to you here.
It’s Friday, 9 October 2026, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.
Good morning.
