Tucholsky Prize (Sweden)

The Tucholsky Prize ( Swedish Tucholskypriset ) is an award for writers who are persecuted or threatened in their own country and therefore have to live in exile . The Swedish section of the international writers' association PEN first awarded the 150,000 crown prize in 1985.

Award winners

1985 Adam Zagajewski (* 1945)
1986 not awarded
1987 Don Mattera (* 1934)
1988 Sherko Bekas (1940-2013)
1989 Augusto Roa Bastos (1917-2005)
1990 at Dao (* 1949)
1991 Nuruddin Farah (* 1945)
1992 Salman Rushdie (* 1947)
1993 Mirko Kovač (* 1938)
1994 Taslima Nasrin (* 1962)
1995 Sjirali Nurmuradov
1996 Swetlana Alexijewitsch (* 1948)
1997 Faraj Sarkohi (* 1947)
1998 Vincent P. Magombe (* 1959)
1999 Flora Brovina (* 1949)
2000 Salim Barakat (* 1951)
2001 Asiye Güzel Zeybek

2002 Rajko Đurić (* 1947)
2003 Jun Feng
2004 Yvonne Vera (1964-2005)
2005 Samir El-Jussef (* 1965)
2006 Nasser Zarafshan (* 1946)
2007 Faraj Bayradkar (* 1951)
2008 Lydia Cacho (* 1963)
2009 Dawit Isaak (* 1964)
2010 Abdul Samey Hamed
2011 Uladsimir Njakljajeu (* 1946)
2012 Samar Yazbek (* 1970)
2013 Masha Gessen (* 1967)
2014 Muharrem Erbey
2015 Arkadi Babtschenko (* 1977)
2016 Aslı Erdoğan (* 1967)
2017 Yassin al-Haj Saleh (* 1961)
2018 Nasrin Sotudeh (* 1963)
2019 Gui Minhai (* 1964)

Web links

Swedish PEN section