Sonning Prize

Sonning Prize

: "This article is about the culture prize "The Sonning Prize". For the music prize - see Léonie Sonning Music Prize"

The Sonning Prize (Danish: "Sonningprisen") is awarded biennially for outstanding contributions to European culture. A committee headed by the rector of the University of Copenhagen decides among candidates proposed by European universities. The prize amounts to 1 mio DKK (~135,000 €). The prize award ceremony is held on April 19 (Sonning's birthday) at the University of Copenhagen. The prize was established by will of the Danish editor and author "Carl Johan Sonning" (1879-1937). It was first awarded in 1950 (extraordinarily) and subsequently every second year from 1959.

onning Prize laureates

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*2008 flagicon|Italy Renzo Piano, architecture
*2006 flagicon|Hungary Ágnes Heller, philosophy
*2004 flagicon|United Kingdom Mona Hatoum, creative arts
*2002 flagicon|Ireland Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
*2000 flagicon|Italy Eugenio Barba, theatre
*1998 flagicon|Denmark Jørn Utzon, architecture
*1996 flagicon|Germany Günter Grass, author
*1994 flagicon|Poland Krzysztof Kieślowski, film
*1991 flagicon|Czech Republic Václav Havel, author and statesman
*1989 flagicon|Sweden Ingmar Bergman, theatre and film
*1987 flagicon|Germany Jürgen Habermas, philosophy
*1985 flagicon|Faroe Islands William Heinesen, author
*1983 flagicon|France Simone de Beauvoir, author
*1981 flagicon|Italy Dario Fo, theatre
*1979 flagicon|Austria Hermann Gmeiner, founder of the SOS Children's Villages
*1977 flagicon|Norway Arne Næss, philosophy
*1975 flagicon|Germany Hannah Arendt, politology
*1973 flagicon|Austria Karl Popper, philosophy
*1971 flagicon|Italy Danilo Dolci, social worker
*1970 flagicon|Germany Max Tau, author
*1969 flagicon|Iceland Halldór Laxness, author
*1968 flagicon|Hungary Arthur Koestler, author
*1967 flagicon|Netherlands Willem A. Visser't Hooft, theology
*1966 flagicon|United Kingdom Sir Laurence Olivier, actor
*1965 flagicon|Austria Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, author and statesman
*1964 flagicon|Belgium Dominique Pire, theology
*1963 flagicon|Switzerland Karl Barth, theology
*1962 flagicon|Finland Alvar Aalto, architecture
*1961 flagicon|Denmark Niels Bohr, physics
*1960 flagicon|United Kingdom Bertrand Russell, philosophy
*1959 flagicon|Germany Albert Schweitzer, philosophy
*1950 flagicon|United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill, author and statesman

ee also

* Léonie Sonning Music Prize

References

[http://www.ku.dk/english/sonning_prize/ Sonning Prize at the University of Copenhagen]


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