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
https://pen-international.org/news/stella-nyanzi-wins-oxfam-novib-pen-international-award-2020
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