This year’s Nobel Prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting the Peace Prize could go to Egypt’s Maggie Gobran for helping Cairo’s poor, Afghan burqa opponent Sima Samar or American scholar

Swedish poet Tomas Trans-troemer, who sets moral goals with unexpected yet simple imagery, won the 2011 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. Transtro-emer, 80, was honoured “because, through his condensed, translucent ima-ges, he gives us fresh access to reality,” the Swedish Academy’s jury said.