The former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee says the 2009 award to President Barack Obama failed to live up to the panel's expectations.
He said the committee expected the prize to give a boost to Obama.
Instead, it was met with fierce criticism in the United States where many people argued that Obama had not been president long enough to do something worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Former Secretary Geir Lundestad writes in his new book out this month, Secretary of Peace: 25 years with the Nobel Prize, that many of the president's supporters also believed the prize was a bad idea.
"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in excerpts of the book. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for."
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