From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 cul-
ture. 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 award-
ed in 1950 and subsequently every second year from
1959.
Sonning Prize laureates
See also
• Léonie Sonning Music Prize
References
Sonning Prize at the University of Copenhagen
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sonning Prize
Year Recipient Field Nationality
2010 Hans Magnus Enzensberger author Germany
2008 Renzo Piano architecture Italy
2006 Ágnes Heller philosophy Hungary
2004 Mona Hatoum creative arts United Kingdom
2002 Mary Robinson UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ireland
2000 Eugenio Barba theatre Italy
1998 Jørn Utzon architecture Denmark
1996 Günter Grass author Germany
1994 Krzysztof Kieślowski film Poland
1991 Václav Havel author and statesman Czech Republic
1989 Ingmar Bergman theatre and film Sweden
1987 Jürgen Habermas philosophy Germany
1985 William Heinesen author Faroe Islands
1983 Simone de Beauvoir author France
1981 Dario Fo theatre Italy
1979 Hermann Gmeiner founder of the SOS Children’s Villages Austria
1977 Arne Næss philosophy Norway
1975 Hannah Arendt politology Germany
1973 Karl Popper philosophy Austria
1971 Danilo Dolci social worker Italy
1970 Max Tau author Germany
1969 Halldór Laxness author Iceland
1968 Arthur Koestler author United Kingdom
1967 Willem A. Visser’t Hooft theology Netherlands
1966 Laurence Olivier actor United Kingdom
1965 Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi author and statesman Austria
1964 Dominique Pire theology Belgium
1963 Karl Barth theology Switzerland
1962 Alvar Aalto architecture Finland
1961 Niels Bohr physics Denmark
1960 Bertrand Russell philosophy United Kingdom
1959 Albert Schweitzer philosophy Germany
1950 Sir Winston Churchill author and statesman United Kingdom
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