Sophie Prize
The Sophie Prize is an annual, international environmental and development prize . The prize was donated in 1997 by Jostein Gaarder and his wife Siri Dannevig and named after Gaarder's novel Sofies Welt . The Sophie Prize is endowed with 100,000 US dollars and was awarded for the last time in 2013 because the financial means were no longer sufficient.
Award winners
- 1998 Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria
- 1999 Herman Daly , USA, Thomas Kocherry , India
- 2000 Sheria Liao , China
- 2001 attac France
- 2002 Bartholomäus I , Patriarch of Constantinople
- 2003 John Pilger
- 2004 Wangari Muta Maathai
- 2005 Sheila Watt-Cloutier
- 2006 Romina Picolotti
- 2007 Göran Persson
- 2008 Gretchen C. Daily , USA
- 2009 Marina Silva , Brazil
- 2010 James Hansen , USA
- 2011 Tristram Stuart
- 2012 Eva Joly , Norway
- 2013 Bill McKibben
Web links
- www.sophieprize.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Øyvind Rønning Nyborg: Sofieprisen legges ned. NRK , May 28, 2013, accessed November 22, 2019 (Norwegian).