No black-tie dinner with the Swedish king for this year’s Nobel Prize winners

Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who lives in the U.K., poses with his 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature medal after being presented it at the Swedish ambassador

Instead, most of the laureates are receiving their awards in their home countries because the pandemic has disrupted the ceremonies yet again.

(Image credit: Matt Dunham/AP)

Instead, most of the laureates are receiving their awards in their home countries because the pandemic has disrupted the ceremonies yet again.