The Nobel Foundation's codified statute text keys the posthumous exception to 'prizewinner' status and receiving the prize, not to the word 'announcement' used in its own popular explainer

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The Nobel Foundation's own "Nobel Prize facts" explainer states the posthumous-award rule as: "From 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that a prize cannot be awarded posthumously, unless death has occurred after the announcement of the Nobel Prize." The Foundation's own codified statute text (§4), however, never uses the word "announcement." It reads: "Work produced by a person since deceased shall not be considered for an award. If, however, a prizewinner dies before he has received the prize, then the prize may be presented." The statute's trigger is instead named "prizewinner" status (i.e., already having been selected) and death occurring before "receiv[ing]" the prize — which in practice means before the December ceremony, but is worded around the ceremony's outcome rather than the announcement event itself.

The two framings describe the same practical window — see the 1974 rule and its pre/post history and Vickrey's case, which satisfies both readings — but they are not verbally identical, and a claim leaning on the Foundation's plain-English summary pages is citing the explainer, not the statute paragraph.