Prix Voltaire
The Prix Voltaire is an award given annually by the International Publishers Union since 2006 to people who have made a special contribution to the freedom of the written word. The prize was established as the Freedom to Publish Prize in 2005 , first awarded in 2006 and renamed the IPA Prix Voltaire in 2016 . The prize is endowed with 10,000 Swiss francs.
Previous winners were:
- 2020 Nhà Xuất bản Tự do (Liberal Publishing House) (Vietnam)
- 2019 Khaled Lutfi (Egypt)
- 2018 Gui Minhai (Sweden / Hong Kong)
- 2017 Turhan Günay & Evrensel (Turkey)
- 2016 Raif Badawi (Saudi Arabia)
- 2015 not awarded
- 2014 Ihar Lohvinau (Belarus)
- 2013 not awarded
- 2012 Jonathan Shapiro ("Zapiro", South Africa)
- 2011 Bui Chat (Vietnam)
- 2010 Israpil Shovkhalov & Viktor Kogan-Yasny from DOSH magazine (Chechnya-Russia)
- Special prize: Irfan Sancı from Sel Yayıncılık (Turkey)
- 2009 Sihem Bensedrine , Neziha Rejiba , Mohamed Talbi , Founders of the Observatory for the Freedom of the Press, Publishing and Creation in Tunisia (OLPEC) (Tunisia)
- 2008 Ragıp Zarakolu (Turkey)
- 2007 Trevor Ncube (Zimbabwe)
- Special Prize: Anna Stepanowna Politkowskaja (Russia, posthumous ) & Hrant Dink (Turkey, posthumous)
- 2006 Shalah Lahiji (Iran)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vietnam's Liberal Publishing House awarded 2020 Prix Voltaire . June 3, 2020. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- ↑ IPA Prix Voltaire Conferred on Khaled Lutfi in Seoul , article from June 25, 2019 on Publishing Perspectives , accessed on August 29, 2019.