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The Ossietzky Award ( no, Ossietzkyprisen ) is a prize awarded by the Norwegian chapter of P.E.N., for extraordinary contributions to freedom of speech. The prize is named after writer and

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

laureate

Carl von Ossietzky Carl von Ossietzky (; 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and pacifist. He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament. As editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Die ...

Recipients

Aziz Nesin Aziz Nesin (; born Mehmet Nusret, 20 December 1915 – 6 July 1995) was a Turkish writer, humorist and the author of more than 100 books. Born in a time when Turks did not have official surnames, he had to adopt one after the Surname Law of ...

(1993) *

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 ...

(1994) * Johanna Schwarz (1995) * Koigi wa Wamwere (1996) * Haakon Børde (1997) *

Ketil Lund Ketil Lund (born 14 October 1939) is a Norwegian judge. He was born in Oslo as a son of barrister and director Bernt Bjelke Lund (1898–1956) and Irlin Sommerfelt (1902–1974). He is a paternal grandson of Jens Michael Lund. From 1963 to 1967 ...

(1998) * Wera Sæther (1999) * Britt Karin Larsen (2000) * Sigmund Strømme (2001) * Elisabeth Eide (2002) * Stavanger Municipality (2003) * Aage Storm Borchgrevink (2004) *

Fakhra Salimi Fakhra Salimi (born 18 November 1957 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-born Norwegian human rights activist, feminist, journalist and editor. She is founder and executive director of the MiRA Resource Centre for Black, Immigrant and Refugee Wome ...

(2005) *

Ebba Haslund Ebba Margareta Haslund Halvorsen (12 August 1917 – 10 July 2009) was a Norwegian novelist, writer of short stories, playwright, essayist, children's writer, literary critic, radio speaker and politician. Early and personal life Haslund wa ...

(2006) *

Democratic Voice of Burma The Democratic Voice of Burma ( my, ဒီမိုကရေတစ်မြန်မာ့အသံ, abbreviated DVB) is one of Myanmar's largest independent media organisations. DVB was founded as a non-profit media organization based in Osl ...

(2007) *

Francis Sejersted Francis Sejersted (8 February 1936 – 25 August 2015) was a Norwegian history professor and the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (which awards the Nobel Peace Prize) from 1991 until 1995. Early life Sejersted was born in Oslo. He p ...

and Chungdak Koren (2008) * Mohammed Omer (2009) *

Mansour Koushan Mansour Koushan ( Persian: منصور کوشان) (26 December 1948 Isfahan, Iran – 16 February 2014 Stavanger, Norway) was a prominent Iranian novelist, poet, playwright, editor and director. He received the Ossietzky Award in 2010 for his ...

(2010) *

Mohammad Mostafaei Mohammad Mostafaei ( fa, محمد مصطفایی) is an Iranian human rights lawyer specializing in death penalty cases, particularly those with juvenile defendants and other human rights cases. In 2010, he moved to Norway, having left Iran due to ...

(2011) *

Deeyah Khan Deeyah Khan ( ur, , , born 7 August 1977) is a Norwegian documentary film director and human rights activist of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. Deeyah is a two-time Emmy Award winner, two time Peabody Award winner, a BAFTA winner and has received the ...

(2012) *

Sidsel Mørck Sidsel Mørck (born 28 November 1937) is a Norwegian poet, novelist and columnist. Her awards include the Fritt Ord honorary award and the Ossietzky Award. Career Mørck made her literary debut in 1967 with the poetry collection ''Et ødselt s ...

(2013) *

Sidsel Wold Sidsel Wold (born 23 February 1959) is a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer. She is known as Middle East correspondent for NRK, and is a recipient of the Ossietzky Award and the Gullruten honorary award. Personal life and education ...

(2014) *

Irina Scherbakowa Irina Lazarevna S(ch)herbakova (in Russian : Ирина Лазаревна Щербакова) (born 1949) is a Russian historian of the modern age, an author and a founding member of Memorial. She was awarded the Carl von Ossietsky Prize for C ...

(2014) *

Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen (born 4 May 1972) is a Norwegian film director, producer and writer. He is best known for his action drama ''IZZAT'' (2005), his TV series ''TAXI'' (2011) as well as documentary films ''Voluntarily Forced'' (2014) and '' Rec ...

(2015) * Edward Snowden (2016) * Tormod Heier (2017) * Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (2018) * Afshin Ismaeli (2019) * Ahmed Falah, Finn Graff and Siri Dokken on behalf of satirists in Norway (2020) * "Those who speak freely in

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" (2021)

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* {{cite web , url=http://norskpen.no/ossietzkyprisen/ , title= Ossietzky-prisen , publisher= Norwegian P.E.N. Freedom of speech Awards established in 1994 1994 establishments in Norway