Ossietzky Award
# Ossietzky Award

The Ossietzky Award (Norwegian: 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)
