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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by JorgeGT on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:34AM (#16993089)
> Unlike the Nobel laureates in literature and sciences the peace prize is not awarded by the Swedish Academy (in Stockholm).

Note that the Swedish Academy only awards the Literature prize. Nobels in Physics and Chemistry are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel in Physiology or Medicine. Thus, only the Literature prize is impacted by this.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by bertil on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:47AM (#16993555)
> the Karolinska Institutet

The 't' at the end of 'Institutet' is the article, so you can write 'Karolinska Institutet' or 'the Karolinska Institute'.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by croon on Friday May 04, 2018 @07:00AM (#16993590)
Its name is "Karolinska Institutet", so you can't reasonably translate it to "the Karolinska Institute", because at that point the first part if its name is just an untranslated adjective. And if you arrive at "the Carolean Institute" people no longer understand what you're referring to.

Sorry for furthering the pedantry.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by tokai on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:08AM (#16994268)
«sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English[3][4]»[0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolinska_Institute

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