Trevor Noah has won Europe's Erasmus Prize, making him the first comedian to win the prestigious prize since Charlie Chaplin in 1965. | News24Arts
host has won Europe's Erasmus Prize, making him the first comedian to win the prestigious prize since Charlie Chaplin in 1965.Named after Dutch philosopher and humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus, who lived from 1466 to 1536, the prize is selected by the– a cultural institution founded in 1958 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands that is active in the fields of humanities, social sciences and the arts.
Furthermore, Noah was lauded for staking his claim"in the world of contemporary political satire" and becoming"an inspiration to budding talents and a curator of comedy shows in Africa".
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