Awardees Awardees 2020 © Brian Otieno (detail) South Africa Zukiswa Wanner Writer, publisher and curator © Michael Dunn (detail) Bolivia Elvira Espejo Ayca Artist and musuem director © Annalena McAfee (detail) Great Britian Ian McEwan Author Awardees 2019 © Monsudar Publishing LLC Mongolia Enkhbat Roozon Publisher, bookseller and political journalist © Rodolfo Martinez Iranian/USA Shirin Neshat Artist and filmmaker © Manfred Wegener Turkey/Cologne Doğan Akhanlı Freelance author Awardees 2018 © Maik Schuck Colombia Mapa Teatro Theatre-makers © Maik Schuck Brazil Claudia Andujar Photographer, artist and human rights activist © Szilvia Csibi Hungary Péter Eötvös Composer, Conductor and Professor Awardees 2017 © Maik Schuck India Urvashi Butalia Publisher, writer and women’s rights activist © Maik Schuck Lebanon Emily Nasrallah Writer © Maik Schuck Russia Irina Scherbakowa Historian and civil rights activist Awardees 2016 Photo: Maik Schuck Nigeria/Germany Akinbode Akinbiyi Photographer and curator Photo: Maik Schuck Ukraine Yurii Andrukhovych Writer, poet, essayist and translator Photo: Maik Schuck Georgia David Lordkipanidze Paleoanthropologist and museum director Awardees 2015 Syria SADIK AL-AZM Philosopher and author Great Britain Neil MacGregor Art Historian, Director of the British Museum Photo: Tiago Trindade Brazil Eva Sopher Cultural manager, president of the Fundação Theatro São Pedro Awardees 2015 Copyright: Bartłomiej Sowa Poland Krystyna Meissner Director, theatre manager, festival director Copyright: Javier Del Real Belgium, (*1943, † 2014) Gerard Mortier Opera director Foto: Maik Schuck USA Robert Wilson Director and visual artist Awardees 2013 Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Iran S. Mahmoud Hosseini Zad Translator and author Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck India Naveen Kishore Publisher Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Greece Petros Markaris Writer Awardees 2012 Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Lithuania Irena Veisaitė Literary and theatre scholar Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Kazakhstan Bolat Atabayev Theatre director Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Bosnia and Herzegovina Dževad Karahasan Writer Awardees 2011 Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Great Britain David Cornwell alias John le Carré Writer Copyright: Michèle Laurent France Ariane Mnouchkine Stage director Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Poland Adam Michnik Journalist Awardees 2010 Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Hungary Ágnes Heller Philosopher Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck Lebanon Fuad Rifka Poet, philosopher and translator Copyright: Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck USA John M. Spalek Specialist in German studies Back to Goethe Medal