The Onnassis Awards for Law and Belles Lettres were given here on Monday during a ceremony at the La Coupole Hall of the Institute of France.
Lord Thomas Bingham of Cornhill, a member of the British Academy, received the Law award while the Belles Lettres award went to French researcher and Director of the French Center for Alexandrian Studies in Alexandria, Egypt, Jean Yves Empereur and Sir John Boardman, professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Oxford University and member of the British Academy.
The Onassis Awards are accompenied by the sum of 250,000 Euros. They will be given every two years.
Addressing a press conference earlier in the day, the President of the Onassis Foundation Antonis Papadimitriou referred to late Aristotle Onassis’s wish for the awards to be given an international character.
(source: ana-mpa)
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