When it was announced that Boris Pasternak had been awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize, he was forced to decline it at the behest of Soviet authorities, who had banned Doctor Zhivago.

Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat

The Nobel Peace Prize 1978

Born: 25 December 1918, Mit Abu al-Kawm, Egypt

Died: 6 October 1981, Cairo, Egypt

Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

51 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2018

Nobel prize for peace is awarded in Oslo Norway

It was instituted by inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Nobel

The award is given on December 

6 fields Physics, Chemistry,Medicine,Peace,Literature and Economic.

Nobel prize for economics was instituted in 1967 and 1st given in 1969

All other fields 1901

Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, writer, and teacher, who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2003 for her efforts to promote democracy and human rights, especially those of women and children in Iran. She was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to receive the award.