We congratulate this year’s Holberg Prize winner, Prof. Dr Lyndal Roper, Regius Chair at the University of Oxford and a long-standing project partner of Prof. Dr Daniela Hacke (BUA/Torch). The Holberg Prize is one of the world’s most prestigious awards, presented annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities and social sciences (6 million NOK, approx. 535,000 euros).