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Nobel Prize Bibliography Access Skill

Extract structured bibliographical and biographical data from Nobel Prize laureate pages on nobelprize.org.

Overview

The Nobel Prize website contains detailed bibliographies for Literature laureates and bio-bibliographies for recent prize years. These pages present valuable scholarly data in HTML format that can be challenging to parse programmatically. This skill provides structured access to this data.

Supported Page Types

1. Laureate Bibliography Pages

URL Pattern: /prizes/literature/{year}/{laureate}/bibliography/

Example: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1928/undset/bibliography/

These pages contain:

• Tables organized by section (e.g., "Works in Norwegian", "Translations into English", "Critical studies")
• Each row contains a bibliographic entry in the format: Title. – Place : Publisher, Year

2. Bio-bibliography Pages

URL Pattern: /prizes/literature/{year}/bio-bibliography/

Example: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018/bio-bibliography/

These pages contain:

• Biography section with narrative text
• Bibliography organized by language/section (e.g., "Bibliography – a selection", "In English", "In French")

Functions

get_bibliography

Returns complete structured data from a Nobel Prize bibliography page.

result = await execute({
    "function": "get_bibliography",
    "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1928/undset/bibliography/"
})

Returns:

• metadata: Page title, prize year, prize category
• biography: Biography text (for bio-bibliography pages)
• bibliography: Structured bibliography organized by sections
• related_links: Links to related pages (facts, speech, nominations, etc.)
• total_entries: Count of bibliography entries

get_summary

Returns a simplified list of entries (title, year, section only).

result = await execute({
    "function": "get_summary",
    "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/bibliography/"
})

search_entries

Search for entries matching a query string.

result = await execute({
    "function": "search_entries",
    "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1928/undset/bibliography/",
    "query": "Kristin Lavransdatter"
})

Bibliography Entry Structure

Each entry is parsed into structured fields:

Example Use Cases

Extract all works by a laureate

result = await execute({
    "function": "get_bibliography",
    "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1928/undset/bibliography/"
})

for section in result['bibliography']['sections']:
    print(f"\n{section['name']}:")
    for entry in section['entries']:
        print(f"  - {entry.get('title')} ({entry.get('year', 'n.d.')})")

Find translations into a specific language

result = await execute({
    "function": "search_entries",
    "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1928/undset/bibliography/",
    "query": "translated"
})

for match in result['matches']:
    if 'translator' in match:
        print(f"{match['title']} - translated by {match['translator']}")

Generate a chronological list

result = await execute({
    "function": "get_summary",
    "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/bibliography/"
})

# Sort by year
entries = [e for e in result['entries'] if e.get('year')]
entries.sort(key=lambda x: x['year'])

for entry in entries:
    print(f"{entry['year']}: {entry['title']}")

Notes

• The skill uses direct HTTP requests with BeautifulSoup parsing (no browser automation required)
• Rate limiting is set to 2 requests/second to be respectful to the Nobel Prize server
• Results are cached for 1 hour by default
• Not all laureates have bibliography pages; primarily Literature laureates have comprehensive bibliographies
• Bio-bibliography pages are typically available for recent Literature prizes (2015+)