{"id":54247,"date":"2022-11-01T20:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?p=54247"},"modified":"2022-11-01T20:55:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:55:34","slug":"meet-the-winners-of-the-2022-nordic-council-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/meet-the-winners-of-the-2022-nordic-council-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the winners of the 2022 Nordic Council prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nora D\u00e5snes, Solvej Balle, Karin Rehnqvist, Valdimar J\u00f3hannsson, Sj\u00f3n, Hr\u00f6nn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir, Sara Nassim, and the City of Mariehamn are the winners of the 2022 Nordic Council prizes, announced during an awards ceremony broadcast live from Helsinki\u2019s Musikhuset on the evening of Tuesday 1 November.<\/h3>\n
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The Icelandic film \u201cLamm\u201d won the film prize, while the environment prize went to the City of Mariehamn from \u00c5land for the Nabben wetland. The literature prize went to Denmark\u2019s Solvej Balle for her novel \u201cOm udregning af rumfang I, II, III\u201d, while the music prize went to the Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist for the work Silent Earth. Norwegian author Nora D\u00e5snes won the children and young people\u2019s literature prize for the graphic novel \u201cUbesvart anrop\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2022 Nordic Council Film Prize<\/h2>\n
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The 2022 Nordic Council Film Prize goes to the Icelandic film \u201cLamb\u201d by director and screenwriter Valdimar J\u00f3hannsson, screenwriter Sj\u00f3n and producers Hr\u00f6nn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir and Sara Nassim. The work is described by the jury as a unique story of loss, grief and fear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Film Prize<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2022 Nordic Council Music Prize<\/h2>\n
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The 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize goes to Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist for her work Silent Earth. Silent Earth is a bewildering and powerfully encouraging work which greatly impressed the adjudication committee. With a masterful touch, Karin Rehnqvist expresses the unique capacity of music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Music Prize<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2022 Nordic Council Environment Prize<\/h2>\n
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The 2022 Nordic Council Environment Prize goes to the City of Mariehamn from \u00c5land for Nabben wetland for its versatile solution, which cleans the water environment and has positive impact on plant and animal life. In addition, the initiative aims to ensure climate adaptation in the urban environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Environment Prize<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People\u2019s Literature Prize<\/h2>\n
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The 2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People\u2019s Literature Prize goes to the graphic novel \u201cUbesvart anrop\u201d by Nora D\u00e5snes from Norway. Nora D\u00e5snes has won the prize for her strong, credible and nuanced work about how the terrorist attack on 22 July 2011 affected the entire Norwegian nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2022 Nordic Council Children and Young People\u2019s Literature Prize<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize<\/h2>\n
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The 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize goes to the novel \u201cOm udregning af rumfang I, II och III\u201d by author Solvej Balle from Denmark. Solvej Balle receives the prize for her work that the jury described as a masterpiece of its time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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About the Nordic Council prizes<\/h2>\n
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The Nordic Council awards five prizes each year \u2013 for literature, film, music, the environment, and children\u2019s and young people\u2019s literature. The winners each receive DKK 300,000 along with the Nordlys statuette, which is presented at an awards ceremony in connection with the annual Session of the Nordic Council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Nordic Council prizes<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Press photos<\/a><\/p>\n
Photographer:\u00a0Magnus Fr\u00f6derberg, norden.org<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nora D\u00e5snes, Solvej Balle, Karin Rehnqvist, Valdimar J\u00f3hannsson, Sj\u00f3n, Hr\u00f6nn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir, Sara Nassim, and the City of Mariehamn are the winners of the 2022 Nordic Council prizes, announced during an awards ceremony broadcast live from Helsinki\u2019s Musikhuset on the evening of Tuesday 1 November. The Icelandic film \u201cLamm\u201d won the film prize, while the environment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":54245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}