Aase Lionaes

Chairman of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting, who delivered the Committee's Presentation Speech at Andrei Sakharov's 1975 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.

Matters to this vault as the earliest documented author of the Ossietzky-Sakharov institutional pairing: her 1975 speech named Carl von Ossietzky as the precedent for a laureate "prevented from being present," 26 years before Geir Lundestad's 2001 institutional history and 35 years before the Committee's 2010 Liu Xiaobo ceremony speech repeated the same structure — making her the foundational figure in a comparison later credited to a 2017 Committee statement.

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