Nidžara Ahmetašević

Nidžara Ahmetašević was selected for the 2026 Shortlist with Mines, memory, and migration on Bosnia’s perilous border.

Nidžara Ahmetašević is a Sarajevo-based journalist, author, and scholar who covers migration, human rights, and the Balkans. Her work has appeared in AJE, New Yorker, The Observer, The New Humanitarian, The Guardian, Middle East Eye, and BIRN, among others. She was the regional editor for the Kosovo2.0 magazine. IN 2024, she published the book. “The Media as a Tool of International Interventions: House of Cards” (Routledge). She was nominated for the European Press Prize in 2022.

Kim Son Hoang

Kim Son Hoang was selected for the 2026 Shortlist with My parents, my heroes. 

Kim Son Hoang is a foreign affairs editor for DER STANDARD, one of Austria’s leading quality newspapers. He mainly reports on asylum and migration – with a particular focus on the situation in the Mediterranean – and human rights.