1990: Nobel Prizes

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The awarding of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was widely praised except in his own country, which was suffering from economic collapse. Octavio Paz became the first Mexican writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Americans won the majority of prizes in the... ...