Ossietzky Award

Carl von Ossietzky, author and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, pictured as prisoner in Germany

The Ossietzky Award (Norwegian: Ossietzkyprisen) is a prize awarded by the Norwegian chapter of P.E.N., for extraordinary contributions to freedom of speech.^[1]

The prize is named after writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky.

Recipients

• Aziz Nesin (1993)
• Axel Jensen (1994)^[1]
• Johanna Schwarz (1995)^[1]
• Koigi wa Wamwere (1996) ^[1]
• Haakon Børde (1997) ^[1]
• Ketil Lund (1998)^[1]
• Wera Sæther (1999)^[1]
• Britt Karin Larsen (2000)^[1]
• Sigmund Strømme (2001)^[1]
• Elisabeth Eide (2002)^[1]
• Stavanger Municipality (2003)^[1]
• Aage Storm Borchgrevink (2004)^[1]
• Fakhra Salimi (2005)^[1]
• Ebba Haslund (2006)^[1]
• Democratic Voice of Burma (2007)^[1]
• Francis Sejersted and Chungdak Koren (2008)^[1]
• Mohammed Omer (2009)^[1]
• Mansour Koushan (2010)^[1]
• Mohammad Mostafaei (2011)^[1]
• Deeyah Khan (2012)^[1]
• Sidsel Mørck (2013)^[2]
• Sidsel Wold (2014)^[3]
• Irina Scherbakowa (2014)^[4]
• Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen (2015) ^[5]
• Edward Snowden (2016)^[6]
• Tormod Heier (2017) ^[1]
• Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury (2018)^[7]
• Afshin Ismaeli (2019)^[8]
• Ahmed Falah, Finn Graff and Siri Dokken on behalf of satirists in Norway (2020)^[9]
• "Those who speak freely in Afghanistan" (2021)^[10]
• Shabana Rehman (2022)^[1]
• Julian Assange (2023)^[1]
• Odd Isungset (2024)^[11]

• Sami Abu Salem (2026)^[12]

References

1. Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Ossietzkyprisen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
2. "Ossietzkyprisen 2013 tildeles Sidsel Mørck". norskpen.no (in Norwegian). 10 November 2013. Archived from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
3. Lavik, Maria (10 November 2014). "Sidsel Wold får pris for Midtausten-rapportering". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 September 2017.
4. Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Russian historian Irina Sherbakova receives Carl von Ossietsky Prize | DW | 04.05.2014". DW.COM. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
5. "Ossietzkyprisen 2015 tildeles Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen". norskpen.no (in Norwegian). 29 October 2015. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
6. "Edward Snowden tildeles Ossietzky-prisen". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 16 September 2017.
7. "Ossietzkyprisen 2018 til Ahmedur Rashid Chowdury". norskpen.no (in Norwegian). 18 September 2018. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
8. Ossietzkyprisen 2019 til Afshin IsmaeliArchived 2020-09-21 at the Wayback Machine. Norsk PEN.
9. "Norske satiretegnere mottok Ossietzkyprisen for 2020". PEN Norway. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
10. "Ossietzkyprisen 2021 tildeles frie ytrere fra Afghanistan". PEN Norway. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
11. "Odd Isungset tildeles Ossietzkyprisen 2024". norskpen.no (in Norwegian). 17 October 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2026.
12. "VG-frilanser i Gaza tildeles Ossietzkyprisen". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 23 January 2026. Retrieved 23 January 2026.

External links

• "Ossietzky-prisen". Norwegian P.E.N.