The Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize was founded by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Nobel died in 1896 and left his fortune of about US $9.2 million to a fund to honour people who have helped other human beings. Jelinek won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, and she was the ninth woman winner since the prize was first awarded in 1901. The Nobel Prize Alfred Nobel was the founder of (46) . The fortune Nobel left to a fund was about (47) (48) won this year’s Nobel Prize for (49) The year Nobel Prize was first awarded: (50)