Vasyl Stus Prize | |
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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, the first non-governmental prize were awarded for “talent and courage” people, which are worthy of the memory of Vasyl Stus. 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. In 1990 it moved to Kyiv.
Among the winners (which is already over 60):