Sonning Prize

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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.

[edit] Sonning Prize laureates

2006 Ágnes Heller, philosophy 2004 Mona Hatoum, creative arts 2002 Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 2000 Eugenio Barba, theatre 1998 Jørn Utzon, architecture 1996 Günter Grass, author 1994 Krzysztof Kieślowski, film 1991 Václav Havel, author and statesman 1989 Ingmar Bergman, theatre and film 1987 Jürgen Habermas, philosophy 1985 William Heinesen, author 1983 Simone de Beauvoir, author 1981 Dario Fo, theatre 1979 Hermann Gmeiner, founder of the SOS Children's Villages 1977 Arne Næss, philosophy 1975 Hannah Arendt, politology 1973 Karl Popper, philosophy 1971 Danilo Dolci, social worker 1970 Max Tau, author 1969 Halldór Laxness, author 1968 Arthur Koestler, author 1967 Willem A. Visser't Hooft, theology 1966 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor 1965 Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, author and statesman 1964 Dominique Pire, theology 1963 Karl Barth, theology 1962 Alvar Aalto, architecture 1961 Niels Bohr, physics 1960 Bertrand Russell, philosophy 1959 Albert Schweitzer, philosophy 1950 Sir Winston Churchill, author and statesman [edit] See also Léonie Sonning Music Prize [edit] References Sonning Prize at the University of Copenhagen