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Sonning Prize recipients

Year Name Title Country
2006 Agnes Heller Philosopher Hungary
2004 Mona Hatoum Visual artist United Kingdom
2002 Mary Robinson UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ireland
2000 Eugenio Barba Theatre director and founder of the Odin Theatre Italy
1998 J�rn Utzon Architect Denmark
1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski Film director Poland
1991 V�clav Havel Author and Head of State Czech Republic
1989 Ingmar Bergman Film and theatre director Sweden
1987 J�rgen Habermas Philosopher and sociologist Germany
1985 William Heinesen Author Faroe Islands
1983 Simone de Beauvoir Author France
1981 Dario Fo Playwright and actor, director Italy
1979 Herman Gmeiner Founder of the SOS Children's Villages Austria
1977 Arne N�ss Philosopher Norway
1975 Hannah Arendt Political theoretician Germany
1973 Karl Popper Philosopher Austria
1971 Danilo Dolci Social worker Italy
1970 Max Tau Author Germany
1969 Haldor Laxness Author Iceland
1968 Arthur Koestler Author Hungary
1967 W.A. Visser�t Hooft Theologian Netherlands
1966 Sir Laurence Olivier Actor United Kingdom
1965 Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi Author and statesman Austria
1964 Dominique Pire Theologian Belgium
1963 Karl Barth Theologian Switzerland
1962 Alvar Aalto Architect Finland
1961 Niels Bohr Physicist Denmark
1960 Bertrand Russell Philosopher United Kingdom
1959 Albert Schweitzer Theologian and philosopher Germany 
1950 Sir Winston Churchill

Extraordinary Prize

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2002 Prize recipient

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Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, received the Sonning Prize in 2002. The Prize is for DKK 1 million and was awarded at the University of Copenhagen.