Dubai, 30 March 2019: Organised by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) for the fifth consecutive year, the Nobel Exhibition 2019 has so far welcomed 40,000 visitors from all age groups, including actual visitors to the site and virtual visitors from around the world who toured the Exhibition online through MBRFs website.

The Exhibition was held in Dubais La Mer area from February 3 to March 30, 2019, under the theme The Nobel Prize in Literature Sharing Worlds. The events agenda of activities attracted significant numbers of school and university students with a series of interactive workshops about the Nobel Prize, presented by experts from the Nobel Museum in Sweden.

On that note, MBRF organised a workshop titled The History of the Nobel Prize in Literature, featuring Dr Gustav Kllstrand, a cultural historian specialised in the history of the Nobel Prize, and curator of the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, who presented an overview of the procedure that has been used to select the winners for more than 100 years.

The academy evaluates works that it considers to be of high literary quality, regardless of the authors background, Dr Kllstrand asserted, explaining that in the past, the academy tended to nominate Europeans for the Prize, seeing as its members were more aware of the cultural output of their own geographic environment. Nevertheless, the academy has sought since the 1980s to expand its scope and honour winners from all around the world.