The Prize

Principal characters in order of appearance

COUNT BERTIL JACOBSSON – Assistant Director of the Nobel Foundation

DR. CLAUDE MARCEAU – Joint winners of the Nobel chemistry award

DR. DENISE MARCEAU

GISÈLE JORDAN – Balenciaga mannequin

MAX STRATMAN – Winner of the Nobel physics award

EMILY STRATMAN – His niece

DR. JOHN GARRETT – Co-winner of the Nobel physiology and medicine award

SARALEE GARRETT – His wife

DR. L. D. KELLER – American psychoanalyst

ANDREW CRAIG – Winner of the Nobel literature award

LEAH DECKER – His sister-in-law

LUCIUS MACK – Editor of the Weekly Independent

INGRID PÅHL – Members of the Nobel welcoming committee

CARL ADOLF KRANTZ

SUE WILEY – Reporter for Consolidated Newspapers

LILLY HEDQVIST – Swedish naturist

DR. CARLO FARELLI – Co-winner of the physiology and medicine award

RAGNAR HAMMARLUND – Swedish industrialist

DR. ERIK ÖHMAN – Swedish Medical researcher

DR. HANS ECKART – East German scientist

GUNNAR GOTTLING – Swedish writer

DARANYI – International agent

MÄRTA NOBERG – Swedish actress

OSCAR LINDBLOM – Swedish chemist