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Frammuseets direktør mottar William Mills Prize for 2022

Prisen deles ut annethvert år til forfatteren av den beste sakprosaboken relatert til Arktis eller Antarktis utgitt i verden de to siste årene.

Geir O. Kløver ble 9. juni 2022 tildelt den prestisjefylte William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books for boken The Nansen Photographs, utgitt av Frammuseet i 2021.

“The William Mills Prize honours the best Arctic or Antarctic nonfiction books published throughout the world”. Prisen deles ut av Polar Libraries Colloquy – en organisasjon som samler universiteter og forskningsinstitusjoner aktive i polområdene.

The Nansen Photographs

The Nansen Photographs tells the story of Norwegian Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his ground-breaking effort to reach the North Pole in the specially-designed polarship Fram. The story starts when the plan for the expedition was launched in 1890 and continues until the end of Nansen’s international lecture tour in 1897. We see how Nansen selected the cameras for the expedition, and photographs and information about the cameras themselves supplement this part.

The main elements of the book are every single recovered photograph taken during the expedition together with personal diary entries from Nansen and seven of his crew members about the situation when the photographs were taken