Honours
Carlsen won the Chess Oscars for 2009, 2010 and 2011. The Chess Oscar, conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64, is awarded to the year's best player according to a worldwide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists. The Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang awarded him "Name of the Year" (Årets navn) and "Sportsman of the year" in 2009. That year he also won the Folkets Idrettspris, a people's choice award from the newspaper Dagbladet. In 2011, he was given the Peer Gynt Prize, a Norwegian honour prize awarded annually to "a person or institution that has achieved distinction in society." Carlsen repeated as winner of Folkets Idrettspris in 2012.
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Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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