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Wałęsa in 2009. Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, former dissident, politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist.He has received multiple awards and honors from national governments, universities, and other non-governmental organisations including the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize.
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel [a] (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death, and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. [5] Unlike the other prizes, the Peace Prize is occasionally awarded to an organisation (such as the International Committee of the Red Cross , a three ...
In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988. [1] [2] He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [1]
Nobel committe member Artur Lundkvist, who favoured the Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor and French novelist Claude Simon (awarded in 1985), said that Golding "was decent but hardly in the Nobel Prize class", and publicly accused the Academy's permanent secretary Lars Gyllensten of orchestrating a "coup" within the Academy, claiming to ...
For jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978. [19] (Jointly awarded to two world leaders Muhammad Anwar el–Sadat and Menachem Begin) Menachem Begin (1913–1992) Israel: 6th Prime Minister of Israel (21 June 1977 – 10 October 1983) Lech Walesa (born 1943) 1983 Poland: President of Poland (22 December 1990 – 22 ...
The Nobel Peace Prize winner talks with Angelina Jolie about life in an Iranian prison, ... The night of their flight was an eternity for me. July 17, 2015, at 5 a.m.—Ali and Kiana's departure ...
Shared the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize with Tobias Asser. [105] Elihu Root [br] February 5, 1845 Clinton, Oneida County, New York, United States February 7, 1937 New York City, United States 1909, 1910, [106] 1913: Won the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize but was awarded the following year. [107] Nagao Ariga (Aruga) November 13, 1860 Osaka, Japan May 17, 1921 ...