Adam Michnik - Awards and Distinctions

Awards and Distinctions

  • Polcul Foundation Award(1980)
  • Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award(1986)
  • Cena Pelikán 2007 (Czech Republic, Listy)
  • Prize winner of Prix de la Liberte of the French PEN-Club (1988)
  • Europe’s Man of the Year (1989) – prize awarded by the magazine La Vie
  • Shofar Award (1991) – prize awarded by National Jewish Committee on Scouting
  • The prize of the Association of European Journalists (1995)
  • Imre Nagy’s medal
  • Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Prize for Democracy and Journalism (May 1996)
  • Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (1998)
  • One of 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the International Press Institute
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2001)
  • Erasmus Prize (Netherlands, 2001)
  • PhD Honoris Causa in New School for Social Research, University of Minnesota, Connecticut College, University of Michigan
  • Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (France, 2003)
  • Listed by Financial Times as one of the 20 most influential journalists in the world.
  • Professor of Kiev-Mohylan Academy; 1 September 2006.
  • Dan David Prize award 2006
  • Patron of the Media Legal Defence Initiative
  • PhD Honoris Causa Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)
  • 2010 Recipient of the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award
  • Goethe Medal (2011)
  • 2012 PhD Honoris Causa Klaipėda University, Klaipėda(Lithuania),2012

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