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TIME with: Nobel Peace laureate Beatrice Fihn

Fihn accepts the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN at the Nobel ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10

THIS IS WHAT MAY HAPPEN WHEN YOU BECOME A NOBEL Peace laureate—at least according to Beatrice Fihn. On the morning the prize winner is named, a man with a very strong Norwegian accent will call you up. After too much preamble, he’ll get to the point: You and your organization have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an achievement that puts you in the company of luminaries like Martin Luther King Jr. and the Dalai Lama. And if you’re Fihn, the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and a 2017 Nobel Peace laureate, you will vaguely suspect the whole thing is a prank.

“It was really a shock,” she says of the call on Oct. 6 revealing

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