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President Barack H. Obama gives his Nobel Lecture in Oslo City Hall 10. December 2009.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 was awarded to President Barack H. Obama.
- Nominations for 2010
- 10. March 2010
- The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received 237 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2010.
- Nobel Lecture
- 10. December 2009
- Read Barack H. Obamas Nobel Lecture.
- Presentation speech
- 10. December 2009
- Read Thorbjørn Jaglands speech given at the Peace Prize Ceremony.
The Library
The Norwegian Nobel Institute has a library with a reading room open to the public.
The collection consists mainly of books and periodicals on international relations after 1800.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Concert
The Nobel Peace prize Concert is arranged as a musical tribute to each year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Artists from the whole world participate in the concert.
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Other Nobel web-pages
For more information on the other Nobel Prizes and Alfred Nobel please visit: nobelprize.org
The Nobel Peace Center is located downtown Oslo with exhibitions on The Nobel Peace Prize and Alfred Nobel.
Nobel Peace Center webpage
The first woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner , in 1905.