Nobel Prize

Alva Myrdal was born in Uppsala in 1902, graduated from University in 1924, and married the same year. Together with her husband she made a major contribution in the 1930s to the work of promoting social welfare. They were joint authors of a book entitled “The population problem in crisis”, and she was also actively…

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2000 to Kim Dae-jung for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular. In the course of South Korea’s decades of authoritarian rule, despite…

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Jimmy Carter delivers his Nobel Lecture. © Pressens Bild AB 2002, S-112 88 Stockholm, Sweden, tel: +46 (0)8 738 38 00. Photo: EPA Scanpix Norway POOL/Bjoern Sigurdson Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2002 Your Majesties, Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I…

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Presentation Speech by Gunnar Berge of the , Oslo, December 10, 2002. Translation of the Norwegian text. Your Majesties, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, and – not least – this year’s Laureate, Jimmy Carter: In one of his volumes, the Norwegian poet Kolbein Falkeid writes: Do not hang splendid moments up on the walls in your…

Transcript from an interview with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, on 12 December 2006. Interviewer is Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist. First of all, welcome to this interview. Muhammed Yunus: Thank you. I’m very honoured to meet you. What did you think when the phone…