在他母亲因癌症去世前一天，约根·瓦特内·弗里德内斯接到了一个电话。
, the day before the funeral for his mother, who died of cancer, Jorgen Watne Frydnes received a phone call.
挪威首相、工党领袖乔纳斯·加尔·斯托尔提出提名他加入诺贝尔委员会。
Jonas Gahr Store, Norway's prime minister and leader of the center-left Labor Party, was offering to nominate him to join the Nobel committee.
35岁时，瓦特内·弗里德内斯将这一连串事件视为象征——纪念过去并为未来创造可能。
At 35, Watne Frydnes saw the collision of events as a symbol. Honoring the past and making a future possible.
六年后，他作为委员会主席准备在10月9日颁发他的第三个诺贝尔和平奖，这一奖项遵循阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔131年前设定的原则。诺贝尔在遗嘱中详细说明了授予以其名字命名的奖项的条件。
Six years later, he is preparing to award his third Nobel Peace Prize as committee president, on October 9, in line with the principles set out by Alfred Nobel 131 years ago. In his will, the Swedish businessman and chemist detailed the conditions for awarding the prizes that would bear his name.
对于诺贝尔和平奖，他设定了独特规则：其他奖项由瑞典委员会决定，而和平奖则由诺贝尔委员会负责，该委员会由挪威议会任命的五名成员组成，任期六年，可续任一次。
For the Nobel Peace Prize, he set out unique rules: While the other awards are decided by Swedish committees, this one falls under the authority of the Nobel committee, a college of five members appointed by the Norwegian parliament for six-year terms, renewable once.
当时首相给他打电话时，瓦特内·弗里德内斯已经因在2011年7月极右翼恐怖分子安德斯·贝林·布雷维克袭击后所扮演的角色而广为人知——该袭击在奥斯陆政府区造成八人死亡，在乌托亚岛导致69人死亡，工党青年组织正在那里举行夏令营。
When the prime minister called him, Watne Frydnes was already well known for the role he played after the attacks by far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik in July 2011, killing eight people in Oslo's government district and 69 on the island of Utoya, where the Labor Party youth wing was holding a summer camp.
经历了12年的重建与和解工作后，瓦特内·弗里德内斯于2025年出版了《无人是孤岛：挪威乌托亚的社区与纪念》一书，并将其描述为他人生中的决定性经历。
After spending 12 years of his life working on reconstruction and reconciliation after the event that traumatized his country, Watne Frydnes published a book, No Man Is an Island: Community and Commemoration on Norway's Utoya in 2025, and today describes it as a decisive experience in his life.