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Freedom to Write Awards
PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award
For the thirteenth consecutive year, Newman's Own, the food
company whose founder and president, actor Paul Newman,
donates all after-tax profits to charity, is funding a
First Amendment Prize administered by PEN American
Center. The award, $25,000, is
presented each spring to a U.S. resident who has fought
courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First
Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies
to the written word.
PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Awards
This is the 18th year that PEN American Center has
honored international writers who have been persecuted
for the exercise of their right to freedom of expression
with Freedom to Write Awards, and the 11th year that
PEN member Barbara Goldsmith has generously
underwritten the awards. A total of 35 writers have
received the award since 1987. The awards are a
powerful tool in PEN American Center's year-round
efforts to end the persecution of individual writers.
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