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Stockholm: Mexican artist Francisco Toledo was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, in Sweden on Thursday for his work protecting the cultural heritage of his native state of Oaxaca.
He took top honours in the prize founded in 1980 by Swedish-German stamp collector Jakob von Uexkull, who believed the mainstream Nobel prizes for peace, literature, sciences, medicine and economics ignore many modern global issues.
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