Rewarded with honour

Mari Boine and Espen Giljane. Photo: Anders Jahres Humanitære Stiftelse

Thursday September 3 the Anders Jahres Kulturpris 2009 will be handed to artist and culture intermediary Mari Boine and ballet artist Espen Giljane. Both are pioneering in their discipline and have received international acknowledgement. The culture award distributes in total 1.000.000 crowns to both and is the highest award that an artist can get in Norway nowadays.

Reiulf Grønnevik

Published: 01.09.2009 08:43 h., updated: 01.09.2009 08:43 h.

Something about this year's winners:

- The culture award is divided amongst two progressive Norwegian artists that represent a way of expression in which the Anders Jahres Kulturpris have not been awarded before – Sami art and ballet. In their respective domains the prize winners have been acting renewing and revealing, also where it concerns the communicating of this. In this way they have contributed in an adequate amount to that their artistic expression has reached a bigger audience, to far outside the boundaries of Norway. With that their effort and the community serving meaning, on top of their performance as a oneman/onewoman artist, are the motivations of the jury, that consisted of Åse Kleveland (chair man), Bentein Baardson, Øivin Fjeldstad, Nina Sundbye and Kjetil Trædal Thorsen.

Source: http://www.altaposten.no/lokalt/nyheter/article287891.ece