International Free Press Society/Canada
9/7/2010
Mark Steyn to receive the Sappho Award for 2010
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—International bestselling author and commentator Mark Steyn will be awarded the Free Press Society’s 2010 Sappho Award at their international conference on Humour, Satire and Free Speech, on September 11, 2010, according to Sappho’s Chief Editor Katrine Winkel Holm.
The annual award is given to an opinion leader who has shown remarkable courage and persistence in his defence of free speech.
Ms Holm notes that Steyn is admired for his special combination of sharply pointed satire and well-documented analysis of public matters. Some readers find his provocative and merciless exposure of the folly of rigid, religious dogmas hard to swallow, and others are offended by his ridicule of the Western world’s bleeding hearts, who still believe in a multicultural utopia.
Steyn, whose columns are widely read throughout the English-speaking world, released America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It in 2006. In the book, he presents a scenario of Europe’s future, caused by three specific circumstances: cultural self-denial, falling birth rates – in fifty years Europe will be either very old or very Islamic – and finally the European welfare states, which deprive their citizens of responsibility for their own lives…
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