2025 Nobel Season: Science, Literature… and Peace Awaits
— October 9, 2025 — It's a week where the world seems, for a moment, to breathe differently.
By La Rédaction · Port-au-Prince · · 4 min read · Updated 24 April 2026
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Port-au-Prince — October 9, 2025 — It's a week where the world seems, for a moment, to breathe differently.
Each day, an announcement comes from Stockholm or Oslo, and humanity remembers that it still knows how to celebrate what it has best: knowledge, creation, and that stubborn dream called peace.
From Laboratories to the Planet: When Science Repairs the World
On Monday, the Nobel Prize in Medicine kicked off the week, honoring two American and one Japanese researcher for their discoveries on the mechanisms of immunity, an advance that could redefine the fight against certain chronic diseases.
On Tuesday, it was the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to three quantum mechanics experts, including one Frenchman, for having explored the invisible territories of matter and time.
On Wednesday, chemistry spoke on behalf of the climate. Japanese Susumu Kitagawa, British Richard Robson, and Jordanian-American Omar M. Yaghi were honored for their research on metal-organic frameworks of molecular architectures capable of purifying water, capturing CO₂, or transforming desert air into a source of humidity.
In a world suffocated by pollution, their work breathes new life into science and the planet.
Literature Between Vision and Vertigo
On Thursday, literature took over. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, for a work described as “fascinating and visionary.” His dense and hypnotic writing explores the chaos of the modern world with an almost mystical lucidity.
In a fragmented Europe, this choice reaffirms literature's role as both a refuge and a mirror.
“I am happy, calm, and very nervous,” Krasznahorkai told Swedish radio, as if he sensed that silence, from now on, would weigh heavier than words.
The Nobel Peace Prize: The World's Anticipation
And now, the final act.
On Friday, October 10, in Oslo, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be revealed.
Among the 338 candidates, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations, only one name will join the lineage of Narges Mohammadi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, or the Dalai Lama. This year, the stakes are immense. The world is plagued by war, hatred, and disinformation. But also by an incredible civic energy, driven by women and men who refuse to succumb to fate. On-the-Ground Heroes Against the Powerful Leading the favorites are the Emergency Response Cells (ERR), a network of Sudanese volunteers who, in the shadow of war, distribute food, care, and hope to millions of trapped civilians. Their work, invisible and vital, is a lesson in humanity.
Other names mentioned: ▪︎ Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, who has become a symbol of resistance against the Russian invasion. But his image, now associated with an interminable war, divides as much as it inspires. ▪︎ The International Criminal Court (ICC) is also among the possible laureates. Despite American sanctions and the successive withdrawals of several African states, the ICC continues to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity, at the risk of incurring the wrath of the powerful. A Nobel for the ICC would be a message: international justice remains a fragile, but indispensable pillar. ▪︎ There is also Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in memory of the journalists killed in Gaza and elsewhere—more than 210 deaths in two years—so that truth does not die. ▪︎ And Mahrang Baloch, a Pakistani activist imprisoned for denouncing the forced disappearances of the Baloch minority. A surgeon, in her thirties, and rebellious, she embodies this generation of women who heal bodies but refuse to remain silent in the face of injustice. Shadows and Symbols ▪︎ Some also mention the widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, who continues the fight against the Putin regime, or Standing Together, an Israeli-Palestinian organization that advocates for coexistence in a climate of hostility.
Voices from the South, from the field, from the pain where peace is built without cameras or speeches. ▪︎ And then, there's Donald Trump.
The American president, who proclaims himself a “natural candidate” for the Nobel Peace Prize, continues to boast about his geopolitical mediations.
But it's difficult to reconcile his threats of annexing Greenland, his aid cuts to Africa, and his migration policies with Alfred Nobel's vision: “fraternity between nations.” A Nobel for Trump? Unlikely, but symptomatic of a time when communication has often replaced conviction. A Message More Than a Prize Beyond the predictions, one thing is certain: the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will not just be an award, but a message. A reminder that peace is not born from bombs or treaties, but from silent gestures, courageous choices, and solidarities that defy fear. In a world saturated with selfishness, this prize reiterates, year after year, that peace is not a naive dream; it is a lucid duty.
On Friday, October 10, in Oslo, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be revealed.
Among the 338 candidates, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations, only one name will join the lineage of Narges Mohammadi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, or the Dalai Lama. This year, the stakes are immense. The world is plagued by war, hatred, and disinformation. But also by an incredible civic energy, driven by women and men who refuse to succumb to fate. On-the-Ground Heroes Against the Powerful Leading the favorites are the Emergency Response Cells (ERR), a network of Sudanese volunteers who, in the shadow of war, distribute food, care, and hope to millions of trapped civilians. Their work, invisible and vital, is a lesson in humanity.
Other names mentioned: ▪︎ Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, who has become a symbol of resistance against the Russian invasion. But his image, now associated with an interminable war, divides as much as it inspires. ▪︎ The International Criminal Court (ICC) is also among the possible laureates. Despite American sanctions and the successive withdrawals of several African states, the ICC continues to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity, at the risk of incurring the wrath of the powerful. A Nobel for the ICC would be a message: international justice remains a fragile, but indispensable pillar. ▪︎ There is also Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in memory of the journalists killed in Gaza and elsewhere—more than 210 deaths in two years—so that truth does not die. ▪︎ And Mahrang Baloch, a Pakistani activist imprisoned for denouncing the forced disappearances of the Baloch minority. A surgeon, in her thirties, and rebellious, she embodies this generation of women who heal bodies but refuse to remain silent in the face of injustice. Shadows and Symbols ▪︎ Some also mention the widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, who continues the fight against the Putin regime, or Standing Together, an Israeli-Palestinian organization that advocates for coexistence in a climate of hostility.
Voices from the South, from the field, from the pain where peace is built without cameras or speeches. ▪︎ And then, there's Donald Trump.
The American president, who proclaims himself a “natural candidate” for the Nobel Peace Prize, continues to boast about his geopolitical mediations.
But it's difficult to reconcile his threats of annexing Greenland, his aid cuts to Africa, and his migration policies with Alfred Nobel's vision: “fraternity between nations.” A Nobel for Trump? Unlikely, but symptomatic of a time when communication has often replaced conviction. A Message More Than a Prize Beyond the predictions, one thing is certain: the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will not just be an award, but a message. A reminder that peace is not born from bombs or treaties, but from silent gestures, courageous choices, and solidarities that defy fear. In a world saturated with selfishness, this prize reiterates, year after year, that peace is not a naive dream; it is a lucid duty.
