Nominations for the Fritt Ord Prize 2025

January 2 2025

The Fritt Ord Foundation invites nominations for potential candidates for the Fritt Ord Foundation Prize.

The Fritt Ord Foundation Prize is the Foundation’s premier annual prize for the recognition of outstanding efforts to promote freedom of expression.

Anyone may nominate a candidate. Nominations should be a maximum of 4000 characters long and include a brief description of the nominee’s efforts and a grounded justification for why the person or organisation in question deserves the prize. Please do not send attachments.

Nominations for the prize should be submitted to post@frittord.no. Mark the email: “Fritt Ord Prize 2025". The deadline for submissions is 12.00 noon on Monday, 20 January.

The Fritt Ord Foundation’s Board will review the nominations parallel to considering the Board’s own nominees.

The nominations and the names of those making nominations will not be made public.

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