1.   Portuguese author Jose Saramago, a Nobel literature laureate, set off a storm of protest in Israel when he compared Ramallah to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

2.   Among those in the crowd were Nobel literature laureates Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia and Jose Saramago of Portugal.

3.   Many Chinese reacted with pride to the announcement of the first Chinese Nobel literature laureate.

4.   Nobel literature laureates Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia and Jose Saramago of Portugal were among those present.

5.   The collected works of some Nobel literature laureates can take up the better part of a bookcase.

6.   The economics laureate was being named Wednesday and the literature laureate on Thursday in Stockholm.

7.   The literature laureate last week was Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

8.   He invited Russian leader Boris Yeltsin and Nobel literature laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn to come, but they declined.

9.   The police chiefs on Thursday charged that he was instead a saboteur working for NALICON, led by Wole Soyinka, a prominent opposition figure and Nobel literature laureate.

10.   The Swedish Academy chooses the literature laureates, and the peace prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.