OSLO, Norway (AP) — It has taken more than two decades, countless lonely nights and imponderable hardships for Aung San Suu Kyi to reach the Oslo podium. But Myanmar’s celebrated former political prisoner is finally getting the chance to make her case for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Suu Kyi landed in the Norwegian capital and home for the world’s greatest diplomatic honor Friday, a day ahead of a speech that many thought she would never be permitted to make.

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