Ingrid Carlberg - Nobel

NOBEL. The mysterious world of Alfred and his prizes is a fascinating story from Alfred Nobel's poverty-stricken childhood in Stockholm to the stormy drama surrounding the will of the wealthy dynamite king. The locations vary from St. Petersburg to Hamburg and Paris, and are bordered by family feuds, heartaches, successes and disappointments. At the same time, NOBEL is a captivating description of Europe in the 1800s - political conflicts, literary treasures and the brilliant development of science. This story is about exploding boundaries.
The August Prize-winning writer and journalist Ingrid Carlberg researched the archives of several countries and found previously unknown sources that shed new light on the man who dreamed of serving humanity. Carlberg combines the level of scientific ambition of a researcher with the characteristics of a narrative journalist. In this book, he was the first to write a summary of Alfred Nobel and the background of the Nobel Prize.