Navi Pillay Wins Nobel Peace Prize at 85 as Committee Announces Award Before Reaching Her
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 9
Navi Pillay Wins Nobel Peace Prize at 85 as Committee Announces Award Before Reaching Her
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 9
Summary
Jørgen Watne Frydnes announced in Oslo that Navi Pillay had won the Nobel Peace Prize before the Norwegian Nobel Committee had managed to inform her directly.
Pillay was attending an annual human rights conference in Nuremberg, where former U.S. war-crimes ambassador Stephen Rapp said he broke the news to a room of about 120 lawyers and judges.
Frydnes publicly urged her to answer any call from a Norwegian number, underscoring how laureates are sometimes unreachable when the prize is announced.
Geoffrey Hinton got his 2024 Nobel Physics call around 1 a.m. in a California hotel room, illustrating a recurring quirk in how Nobel winners learn they have been chosen.