# The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize - Hardcover

by **Geir Lundestad** (Author)

_The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize_ is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel Peace Prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the prize, as well as its highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, over the last one-hundred-and-twenty years. But more than that, the book also draws on the author's unique insight during his twenty-five years as Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. It reveals the real story of all the laureates of that period - some of them among the most controversial in the history of the prize (Gorbachev, Arafat, Peres and Rabin, Mandela and De Klerk, Obama, and Liu Xiaobo) - and exactly why they came to receive the prize.

Despite all that has been written about the Nobel Peace Prize, this is the first-ever account written by a prominent insider in the Nobel system.  

### Author Biography

  
**Geir Lundestad** was the Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1990-2014 and Adjunct Professor of International History, University of Oslo from 1991-2014.  

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 1 x 9.3 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** November 01, 2019

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