Sophie Prize
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The Sophie Prize is an international environment and development prize (USD 100,000 = 77,000 €), awarded annually. It was established in 1997 by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder and his wife Siri Dannevig, and it is named after Gaarder's novel Sophie's World.
[edit] Prize winners
- 2007: Göran Persson
- 2006: Romina Picolotti
- 2005: Sheila Watt-Cloutier
- 2004: Wangari Maathai
- 2003: John Pilger
- 2002: Patriarch Bartholomew I
- 2001: ATTAC France
- 2000: Sheri Liao
- 1999: Herman Daly and Thomas Kocherry
- 1998: Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria
