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Kurt Westergaard honored with press freedom award

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Alan Gardner Published: May 28, 2008 Updated: September 18, 2026 1 minute 0 comments

Kurt Westergaard, the controversial cartoonist drew the now infamous cartoonist of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban was honored last week with the Sappho Award by the Danish Free Press Society. The award, named after the Greek poet Sappho, comes with a $4,200 prize and statue.