Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel peace prize winner from 2010. But who will be awarded the prize this year? Photograph: Liu Xia/EPA
Last year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee sparked a minor diplomatic
row when it awarded the prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo; in 2009
it was no less provocative when it selected Barack Obama before the US
president had even completed a year in office.
In 2011, arguably
the most eventful year of the century so...
