Vasyl Stus Prize
| Vasyl Stus Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | ...awarded authors, who have outstanding achievements in their field, take a clear public position, actively present in the Ukrainian cultural space |
| Country | Ukrainian SSR / Ukraine |
| First awarded | 1989 |
The Vasyl Stus Prize (Ukrainian: Премія імені Василя Стуса), given since January 1989, is the first non-governmental prize awarded for “talent and courage” and being worthy of the memory of Vasyl Stus.[1] This Prize was set up by the Ukrainian Association of the Independent Creative Intelligentsia and awarded every year on the poet’s, Stus', date of birth in Lviv.[2] In 1990 it moved to Kyiv.
Winners
Among the winners (which is already over 60):
- Olena Golub
- Mykola Horbal
- Maria Burmaka
- Olga Bogomolets
- Igor Zhuk
- Opanas Zalyvakha
- Taras Kompanichenko
- Mykhailyna Kotsyubynska
- Ivanna Krypyakevych
- Volodymyr Kuchynsky
- Raisa Lysha
- Sergiy Moroz
- Kost Moskalets
- Vasyl Ovsienko
- Ivan Svitlychnyi
- Nadiya Svitlychna
- Lyudmyla Semykina
- Galyna Sevruk
- Galyna Stefanova
- The Telnyuk Sisters
- Moysey Fishbein
- Valeriy Franchuk.
- Oleksandr Riabokrys
- Myroslav Marynovych
- Iryna Zhylenko
- Yevgen Zakharov.
See also
- Kobzar Literary Award
- List of literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- List of European art awards
- Shevchenko National Prize
- Warrior of Light