Hermann Kesten Prize

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The Hermann Kesten Prize is a German literary award honoring writers, journalists, and publishers who have shown outstanding commitment to the defense of persecuted authors and freedom of expression.

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Label Occurrences
Hermann Kesten Prize canonical 2

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human rights award
literary award
awardedFor outstanding commitment to freedom of expression
outstanding commitment to the defense of persecuted authors
awardFor commitment to human rights
defense of persecuted authors
freedom of expression
country Germany
field literature
frequency annual
genre literature
hasCategory Freedom of expression awards
German literary awards
Human rights awards
hasRecipient Anna Politkovskaya
Aslı Erdoğan
Can Dündar
Gioconda Belli
Günter Grass
Hrant Dink
Iryna Khalip
Journaliste en danger
Reporters Without Borders
surface form: Journalists Without Borders

Liao Yiwu
Liu Xiaobo
Mansur Rajih
Mikis Theodorakis
PEN Belarus
Perihan Mağden
Philippine Center of PEN International
Raif Badawi
Taslima Nasrin
inception 1985
language German
location Germany
namedAfter Hermann Kesten
presentedBy PEN Centre Germany
sponsor PEN Centre Germany

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Instruction
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hermann Kesten Prize
Description of subject: The Hermann Kesten Prize is a German literary award honoring writers, journalists, and publishers who have shown outstanding commitment to the defense of persecuted authors and freedom of expression.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Günter Grass awardReceived Hermann Kesten Prize
Anna Politkovskaya awardReceived Hermann Kesten Prize