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Tag Search results for “prize” — we found 2 results.
1. Oslo jury selects another controversial prize winner
Jon Fosse, one of Norway’s most renowned and respected writers, was recently announced as the recipient of the 2010 International Ibsen Award. The award, which honours ‘an individual, organisation or institution within the arts and culture for exceptional achievements defined within the spirit of Ibsen’s work’, is also designed to ‘initiate a critical debate about essential social, existential and aesthetic topics.’
2. A Nobel comment?
I have loathed the Nobel Peace Prize ever since it was awarded to that mad-dog killer Kissinger. That was long before I lived in Norway or knew anything about the place, of course, not to mention the orgy of sanctimonious chauvinism that accompanies its annual few minutes in the global media spotlight when the award is announced. This year's nonsensical award to Obama was -- albeit for totally different reasons -- simply another manifestation of the same naivety and downright stupidity that so often leads to the likes of the egregious Dr K.
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