Projects | Spiros Vergos Prize
Spiros Vergos Prize
14.03.2012
Spiros Vergos—poet, diplomat, journalist—was a great friend of the Festival, and the director of PWF 2005. Forced to flee Greece by the dictatorship in 1967, he went through exile—and resistance. He died in Prague in May 2007. Through his life and example, the festival sees a proof of the deep connection between writing and politic. If the politic can send away writers, how can writers be away of the politic? Freedom of expression isn’t just the possibility for an authors to speak...
-4fbc8ec65c6f4_150x94.jpg "Spiros Vergos Prize 2012, by Petr Machan, PWF2012")
-petr-machan,-pwf-2011-(8)-4dd2908a3b7a1_150x94.jpg "Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda, poet Saadi Yousef and PWF president Michael March")
Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression 2010 given to Adonis
09.06.2009
Spiros Vergos Prize—Freedom of Expression 2009 for Syrian poet Adonis
-4df07d0608e43_143x95.jpg "Peter Matthiessen, PWF 2010, photo by Štěpán Pech")
Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression 2008 given to Natalia Gorbanevskaya
09.06.2008
2008 laureate - Russian poet Natalia Gorbanevskaya
