Ossietzky Award



The Ossietzky Award  (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 laureate Carl von Ossietzky.

Recipients

 * Aziz Nesin (1993)
 * Axel Jensen (1994)
 * Johanna Schwarz (1995)
 * Koigi wa Wamwere (1996)
 * Haakon Børde (1997)
 * Ketil Lund (1998)
 * Wera Sæther (1999)
 * Britt Karin Larsen (2000)
 * Sigmund Strømme (2001)
 * Elisabeth Eide (2002)
 * Stavanger Municipality (2003)
 * Aage Storm Borchgrevink (2004)
 * Fakhra Salimi (2005)
 * Ebba Haslund (2006)
 * Democratic Voice of Burma (2007)
 * Francis Sejersted and Chungdak Koren (2008)
 * Mohammed Omer (2009)
 * Mansour Koushan (2010)
 * Mohammad Mostafaei (2011)
 * Deeyah Khan (2012)
 * Sidsel Mørck (2013)
 * Sidsel Wold (2014)
 * Irina Scherbakowa (2014)
 * Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen (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 Afghanistan" (2021)