2021 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 8 October 2021.

The citation

The citation reads: "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace". They share the prize equally.

The laureates

Maria Ressa was born in 1963 in Manila, Philippines. Dmitry Muratov was born in 1961 in Kubyshev, USSR (now Samara, Russia).

Why it matters

Ressa, from the Philippines, and Muratov, from Russia, are journalists who have defended freedom of the press in difficult conditions.

The prize

The prize is worth 10 million Swedish kronor, divided between the laureates. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.