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