The Norwegian Authors Union Freedom of Expression Award (Ytringsfrihetsprisen) is an annual prize given by the
Norwegian Authors Union. It is not to be confused with the Freedom of Expression Prize of the
Fritt Ord organization. The prize is awarded to a writer, journalist, author or editor who has made outstanding efforts to promote freedom of expression and tolerance in the very broadest sense. The nominations are made by an International Committee and a National Board of Members.
The Freedom of Expression Award was a gift from the Ministry of Culture to the Norwegian Authors' Union, on the occasion of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of its founding since 1993.
Awarded
*1994
Izzat Ghazzawi, Palestine
*1995
İsmail Beşikçi, Turkey
*1996 Joar Tranøy, Norway
*1997
Yasar Kemal Yasar may refer to:
People
* Yaşar (name), a Turkish name, including a list of people with the name
* Mehmet Yasar, 19th century Macedonian politician
* Nedim Yasar Nedim Yasar (born in Turkey as Nedim Yaşar in 1987 - died in Copenhagen, Denma ...
, Nigeria
*1998
Axel Jensen
Axel Buchardt Jensen (12 February 1932 – 13 February 2003) was a Norwegian author. From 1957 until 2002, he published both fiction and non-fiction texts which include novels, poems, essays, a biography, and manuscripts for cartoons and animated ...
, Norway
*1999
Yehude Simon Munaro
Yehude Simon Munaro (born 18 July 1947) is a Peruvian politician, who served as Governor of the Lambayeque Region between 2003 and 2008, Prime Minister between 2008 and 2009 and as a Congressman from Lambayeque between 2011 and 2016, elected un ...
, Peru
*2000
Željko Kopanja
Željko Kopanja (21 October 1954 – 8 August 2016) was a Serbian newspaper editor and director of the newspaper '' Nezavisne Novine''. ''The Christian Science Monitor'' described him as an equal critic of all parties without regard to ethnicity a ...
, Bosnia
*2001
Amos Oz
Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onw ...
, Israel
*2002
Anna Politkovskaya
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (;, ; uk, Ганна Степанівна Політковська , 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political events in Russia, in partic ...
, Russia
*2003
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (EYD: Pramudya Ananta Tur) (6 February 1925 – 30 April 2006) was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemics and histories of his homeland and its people. His works span the colonial period under Dutch ...
, Indonesia
*2004
Ragıp Zarakolu
Ragıp Zarakolu (born 1948) is a Turkish human rights activist and publisher who has long faced legal harassment for publishing books on controversial subjects in Turkey, especially on minority and human rights in Turkey.
Biography
Ragıp Zar ...
, Turkey
*2005
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin ( am, ጸጋዬ ገብረ መድኅን; 17 August 1936 – 25 February 2006) was an Ethiopian poet and novelist. His novels and poets evoke retrospective narratives, fanciful epics, and nationalistic cannonations. Tsegay is co ...
, Ethiopia
*2006
Simin Behbahani
Simin Behbahani, her surname also appears as Bihbahani (née Siminbar Khalili; fa, سیمین بهبهانی; 20 July 1927 – 19 August 2014) was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet, lyricist and activist. She is known for her poems in a ghaz ...
, Iran
*2007
Tsering Woeser
Tsering Woeser (also written Öser; ; , Han name Chéng Wénsà 程文萨; born 1966) is a Tibetan writer, activist, blogger, poet and essayist.
Biography
Woeser, a quarter Han Chinese and three quarters Tibetan, was born in Lhasa. Her grandfath ...
, Tibet
*2008
Normando Hernández González, Cuba
*2009
Dawit Isaak
Dawit Isaak (born 28 October 1964) is a Swedish-Eritrean playwright, journalist and writer who has been held in prison in Eritrea since 2001 without trial and is considered a traitor by the Eritrean government. Amnesty International considers him ...
, Eritrea
*2010
Ma Thida, Burma
*2011
Ales Bialiatski
Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski ( be, Алесь Віктаравіч Бяляцкі, Alieś Viktaravič Bialiacki; born 25 September 1962) is a Belarusian pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience known for his work with the Viasna Human ...
, Russia
*2012
Wera Sæther, Norway
*2013 Muharrem Erbey, Turkey
*2014 Nguyen Xuan Nghia, Vietnam
*2015 Prize awarded but winner wasn't published.
*2016
Jael Uribe
Jael Uribe Elizabeth Medina is best known as Jael Uribe (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 10, 1975) is a writer, storyteller, poet and painter creator of the female poetic foundation named Women Poets International. She is considered ...
, Dominican Republic
*2017
Asli Erdoğan
*2018
Sumaya Jirde Ali
*2019
Dareen Tatour
Dareen Tatour (born 16 April 1982 in Reineh) is a Palestinian poet, photographer, and social media activist from Reineh, Israel, who writes in Arabic, her mother tongue. She was tried, convicted, and sentenced to five months in prison by an Israe ...
References
External links List of awarded People December 2020
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Norwegian awards