Peer Gynt Prize (Per Gynt-prisen) or Peer Gynt Award (Årets Peer Gynt) is a national Norwegian honor prize presented annually during the Per Gynt Festival. Peer Gynt Prize is named after the main character in Peer Gynt (1867), a five-act play in verse by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.[1]
The Peer Gynt Prize award ceremony takes place during the Peer Gynt Festival (Peer Gynt-stemnet) at Vinstra in Gudbrandsdalen, one of Norway leading festivals. Peer Gynt Festival is a 12-day cultural festival that takes place in the beginning of August each year. The first Festival was held in 1928, for the centennial of Henrik Ibsen's birth.[2]
The Peer Gynt Prize has been awarded every year since 1971. The recipient of the annual prize is chosen by the Norwegian parliament, and is given to a person or institution that has achieved distinction in society. Every year a prominent person is awarded The Peer Gynt Price. The chosen candidate needs to have distinguished her/himself in a positive manner in society, and also needs to have contributed to improving Norway's international reputation. The foundations of the Peer Gynt Prize are sustainability ethics and benefits for society. Factors in awarding the prize include efforts to protect the environment, support of international peace and overcome poverty and hunger.[3]
Members of the Peer Gynt Festival itself, parliamentary representatives and former winners of the year's Peer Gynt prize may propose candidates for the award. Former award-winners form a distinguished network connected to the Peer Gynt Festival. The award is a bronze statuette of Peer Gynt riding a reindeer buck (Peer Gynt-statuetten), made by artist Carl Bilgrei.[4]
Prize winners [link]
- 1971: Einar Gerhardsen, former Prime Minister
- 1972: Per Aabel, actor
- 1973: Liv Ullmann, actress
- 1974: Erik Bye, singer and artist
- 1975: Erling Stordahl, singer and advocate for disabled persons
- 1976: Øivind Bergh, conductor
- 1977: Birgit and Rolf Sunnaas, founders of Sunnaas Hospital
- 1978: Arve Tellefsen, violinist
- 1979: Grete Waitz, marathon runner
- 1980: Anne-Cath. Vestly, author
- 1981: Cato Zahl Pedersen, disabled sportsperson
- 1982: Jens Evensen, diplomat, lawyer and politician
- 1983: Thorbjørn Egner, author and artist
- 1984: Crown Princess Sonja
- 1985: Bobbysocks, winners of the Eurovision Song Contest
- 1986: Annie Skau Berntsen, nurse and missionary
- 1987: a-ha, musical group
- 1988: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 1989: Norwegian Olympic Committee, Ole Sjetne
- 1990: Thorvald Stoltenberg, politician and United Nations official
- 1991: Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld, journalist
- 1992: Bjørn Dæhlie and Vegard Ulvang, cross-country skiers
- 1993: Kjetil André Aamodt, alpine skier
- 1994: Mona Juul and Terje Rød Larsen, diplomats
- 1995: Johann Olav Koss, speed skater and founder of Right To Play
- 1996: Jostein Gaarder, author
- 1997: Gro Harlem Brundtland, United Nations official and former Prime Minister
- 1998: Norway women's national handball team, Marit Breivik
- 1999: Thor Heyerdahl, ethnographer and adventurer
- 2000: Bellona Foundation environmental organization
- 2001: Knut Vollebæk, politician and diplomat
- 2002: Eva Joly, lawer against corruption
- 2003: Åsne Seierstad, journalist and author
- 2004: Arne Næss, philosopher and mountaineer
- 2005: Jan Egeland, diplomat and United Nations official
- 2006: Kjell Inge Røkke, entrepreneur
- 2007: Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist
- 2008: Snøhetta AS, international architecture company
- 2009: Ole Gunnar Solskjær, footballer and UNICEF ambassador
- 2010: Dissimilis Norway
- 2011: Magnus Carlsen, chess player
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External links [link]
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Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt (/ˈpɪər ˈɡɪnt/; Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈpæːr ˈjʏnt]) is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Written in the Bokmål form of Norwegian, it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed Per Gynt, the Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, to be rooted in fact, and several of the characters are modelled after Ibsen's own family, notably his parents Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. He was also generally inspired by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's collection of Norwegian fairy tales, published in 1845 (Huldre-Eventyr og Folkesagn).
According to Klaus Van Den Berg, the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones".Peer Gynt has also been described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance. A first edition of 1,250 copies was published on 14 November 1867 in Copenhagen. Although the first edition swiftly sold out, a reprint of two thousand copies, which followed after only fourteen days, didn't sell out until seven years later.
Peer Gynt (disambiguation)
Peer Gynt is a play by Henrik Ibsen named for its main character, based on the fairy tale Per Gynt.
Peer Gynt may also refer to:
See also
Peer Gynt (1934 film)
Peer Gynt is a 1934 German drama film directed by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Hans Albers, Lucie Höflich and Marieluise Claudius. It is based on the play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. It was one of the most expensive productions made by Bavaria Film and involved location shooting in Norway.
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Peer Gynt
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