PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award

The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award honours writers anywhere in the world who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for the right to freedom of expression.^[1]

Established in 1987, the award is administered by PEN American Center and underwritten by PEN trustee Barbara Goldsmith. Awards have been granted to 42 writers from around the world. Of the 38 award winners who were in prison at the time they were honoured, 35 have subsequently been released.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the “major” American literary prizes

2014

Ilham Tohti， Uyghur Scholar ；2013 Ayşe Berktay， a translator, writer, and activist in Turkey, as the recipient of its 2013 ；2012

– Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia^[3]

2011

– Nasrin Sotoudeh, Iran

2010

– Nay Phone Latt, Burma

2009

– Liu Xiaobo, China

2008

– Yang Tongyun, China

2007

– Normando Hernández González, Cuba

2006

– Mohammad Benchicou, Algeria

– Rakhim Esenov, Turkmenistan

2005

– Deyda Hydara, Gambia

– Ali Al-Domaini, Saudi Arabia

2004

– Nasser Zarafshan, Iran

– Lê Chi Quang, Vietnam

2003

– Zouhair Yahyaoui, Tunisia

– Bernardo Arévalo Padrón, Cuba

2002

– Aung Myint, Myanmar (Burma)

– Tohti Tunyaz, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China

2001

– Shahla Lahiji, Iran

– Mamadali Mahmudov, Uzbekistan

2000

– Flora Brovina, Kosovo

– Xue Deyun, China

1999

– Faraj Ahmad Birqdar, Syria

– Esber Yagmurdereli, Turkey

1998

– Ogaga Ifowodo, Nigeria

– Liu Jingsheng, China

1997

– Godwin Agbroko, Nigeria

– Ayse Nur Zarakolu, Turkey

1996

– Ma Thida, Myanmar (Burma)

– Anonymous, Africa

1995

– San San Nweh, Myanmar (Burma)

– Indamiro Restano Díaz, Cuba

1994

– Edip Polat, Turkey

– Doan Viet Hoat, Vietnam

1993

– Zoran Mutic, Bosnia

– Svetlana Slapsak, Serbia

– Nizar Nayouf, Syria

1992

– Thiagarajah Selvanithy (“Selvi”), Sri Lanka

– Jean Mario Paul, Haiti

1991

– Abraham Serfaty, Morocco

– Francisco Valencia, El Salvador

1990

– Jack Mapanje, Malawi

– Bei Dao, China

1989

– Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnam

– Martha Kumsa, Ethiopia

1988

– Maina wa Kinyatti, Kenya

– Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia

1987

– Matsemela Manaka, South Africa

– Nizametdin Akhmetov, Soviet Union

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN/Barbara_Goldsmith_Freedom_to_Write_Award