Oxfam Novib/PEN Award

Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression is a literary award made in collaboration with PEN International Writers in Prison Committee, the PEN Emergency Fund, and Oxfam Novib (the Dutch affiliate of the international Oxfam organization). The award is to recognize writers who have been persecuted for their work and continue working despite the consequences. Honorees receive €2,500.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Honorees

• 2005^[1]
  • Sihem Bensedrine (Turkey), journalist and human rights activist
  • Neziha Rejiba (Turkey), journalist and editor
  • Sarah Mkhonza (Swaziland), novelist and columnist
  • Claudia Anthony (Sierra Leone), journalist
  • Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam), novelist

• 2006^[2]
  • Simon Mol (Poland), journalist
  • Andrei Dynko (Belarus)
  • Roya Toloui (Iran/Kurdistan)
  • Faraj Bayrakdar (Syria)
  • Hrant Dink (Turkey)

• 2007^[3]
  • Fatou Jaw Manneh (Gambia), journalist
  • Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus), writer
  • Lydia Cacho Ribeiro (Mexico), writer
  • Ekbal Baraka Ekbal (Egypt)

• 2008^[4]
  • Dejan Anastasijevic (Serbia), journalist
  • Pierre Roger Lambo Sanjo (Cameroon), writer
  • Christopher Mlalazi and Raisedon Baya (Zimbabwe), playwrights
  • Maung Thura and Saw Wei (Burma), poets

• 2009^[5]
  • Chi Dang (Vietnam), writer
  • Maziar Bahari (Iranian-Canadian), journalist
  • Irakli Kakabadze (Georgia), writer
  • Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge (Sri Lanka), journalist
  • Daniel Coronell (Colombia), columnist

• 2010 [no award]

• 2011^[6]
  • Andrei Nekrasov (Russia), film and journalist
  • Sakit Zahidov (Azerbaijan), journalist and poet
  • Nedim Şener (Turkey), journalist
  • J.S. Tissainayagam (Sri Lanka), journalist

• 2012^[7]
  • Asieh Amini (Iran), journalist, blogger and activist
  • Jesús Lemus Barajas (Mexico), journalist and writer
  • Mikhail Bekhetof (Russia), journalist
  • Rachid Nini (Morocco), newspaper editor
  • Alhaj Warrag and Abdul Moniem Suleman (Sudan), newspaper founder/editor; and columnist (respectively)

• 2013^[8]
  • Samar Yazbek (Syria), writer and journalist
  • Enoh Meyomesse (Cameroon) Writer, activist
  • Nargess Mohammadi (Iran), journalist activist
  • Deo Namujimbo (Congo), journalist
  • Busra Ersanli (Turkey), writer, academic

• 2014^[9]
  • Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim (Somalia), freelance journalist
  • Oksana Chelysheva (Russia), journalist, activist
  • Dina Meza (Honduras), journalist, activist

• 2015^[10]
  • Bahman Ahmadi-Amouee and Jila Bani Yaghoub (Iran), journalists
  • Razan al-Maghrabi (Libya), writer, journalist, and advocate of women’s rights
  • Abdelmoneim Rahama (Sudan), poet, writer and journalist

References

1. Jan Baeke (December 2005). "Novib / PEN Awards for persecuted writers". The Power of Culture. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
2. "Writer Wins Freedom Award". The Warsaw Voice. November 29, 2006. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
3. "Fatou Jaw Manneh Amongst Four Writers Honoured By Oxfam Novib/PEN". FOROYAA Newspaper. 20 February 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
4. "Oxfam Novib/PEN Award". PEN International. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
5. "Irakli Kakabadze among the recipients of the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award". ICORN. November 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
6. "Human rights ambassador presents PEN award to Russian filmmaker and journalist". Government of the Netherlands. January 20, 2011. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
7. Loubna Flah (January 21, 2012). "Rachid Nini Wins the Oxfam/Pen Award, As a Recognition for His Ordeal Behind Bars". Morocco World News. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
8. Fred Geelen (February 22, 2013). "Oxfam Novib/PEN Award 2013". Oxfam Novib. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
9. "Oksana Chelysheva, Dina Meza and Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim win the 2014 Oxfam Novib/PEN International Free Expression Award". PEN International. 16 January 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
10. "Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards for Freedom of Expression 2015". PEN International. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.