Nigerian Pen Awards

Nigerian Pen Award is a Nigerian literary award presented annually since 2005 to recognize Writer’s notable contributions to people’s freedom to speech around the world regardless of the danger it poses to their lives.

History

The prize was established by the Nigerian affiliate of PEN International, which has its centre at University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Ever since it has been sponsored by Oxfam Novib.

Winners

2020

Dr. Stella Nyanzi (Ugandan) Journalist

2018

Eskinder Nega (Ethopian) Journalist

Milagros Soccorro (Venezuelan) Journalist

2017

Ashraf Fayadh (Saudi Arabia/Palestine), poet

Malini Subramanian (India), journalist

2016

Amanuel Asrat (Eritrea), poet, writer and editor-in-chief
Can Dündar (Turkey), writer and journalist
Omar Hazek (Egypt), poet and writer

2015

Razan al-Maghrabi (Libya), writer and journalist
Jila Bani-Yaghoub (Iran), journalist and women’s rights activist
Bahman Ahmadi-Amouee (Iran), journalist
Abdelmoneim Rahama (Sudan), poet, writer, journalist

2014

Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim (Somalia), freelance journalist
Oksana Chelysheva (Russia), journalist, activist
Dina Meza (Honduras), journalist, activist

2013

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

2011

Andrei Nekrasov (Russia), film and journalist
Sakit Zahidov (Azerbaijan), journalist and poet
Nedim Şener (Turkey), journalist
J.S. Tissainayagam (Sri Lanka), journalist

2009

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

2008

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

2007

Fatou Jaw Manneh (Gambia), journalist
Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus), writer
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro (Mexico), writer
Ekbal Baraka Ekbal (Egypt)

2006

Simon Mol (Poland), journalist
Andrei Dynko (Belarus)
Roya Toloui (Iran/Kurdistan)
Faraj Bayrakdar (Syria)
Hrant Dink (Turkey)

2005

Sihem Bensedrine (Tunisia), journalist and human rights activist
Neziha Rejiba (Turkey), journalist and editor
Sarah Mkhonza (Swaziland), novelist and columnist
Claudia Anthony (Sierra Leone), journalist and editor
Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam), novelist

https://pen-international.org/centres/nigerian-centre