The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize each year "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

Below is a list of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates with links to the corresponding signed and inscribed first editions and photographs we currently have in our collection:

The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
Barack H. Obama
"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2004
Wangari Muta Maathai
"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2002
Jimmy Carter
"for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2001
United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan
"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams
"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1994
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin
"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1993
Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1991
Aung San Suu Kyi
"for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1990
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community"

The Nobel Peace Prize 1989
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

The Nobel Peace Prize 1986
Elie Wiesel

The Nobel Peace Prize 1984
Desmond Mpilo Tutu

The Nobel Peace Prize 1983
Lech Walesa

The Nobel Peace Prize 1982
Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles

The Nobel Peace Prize 1979
Mother Teresa

The Nobel Peace Prize 1978
Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin

The Nobel Peace Prize 1976
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan

The Nobel Peace Prize 1973
Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho

The Nobel Peace Prize 1970
Norman E. Borlaug

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Martin Luther King Jr.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1952
Albert Schweitzer

The Nobel Peace Prize 1919
Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The Nobel Peace Prize 1912
Elihu Root

The Nobel Peace Prize 1906
Theodore Roosevelt