Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage
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The Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage
is an annual literary prize established in the Soviet Union
by the writers' association "Writers in Support of Perestroika
" in October 1990 and continued in the modern Russian federation.
The first recipient was Lydia Chukovskaya
.
Civic courage
Civic courage is the willingness to talk directly to people in authority. Alternatives are avoiding authority all together, or communicating only what is perceived to be expected. Actions that require civic courage vary by culture.-See also:...
is an annual literary prize established in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
by the writers' association "Writers in Support of Perestroika
Perestroika
Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
" in October 1990 and continued in the modern Russian federation.
The first recipient was Lydia Chukovskaya
Lydia Chukovskaya
Lydia Korneievna Chukovskaya was a Soviet writer and poet. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov...
.
Recipients
- 1990: Lydia ChukovskayaLydia ChukovskayaLydia Korneievna Chukovskaya was a Soviet writer and poet. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov...
- 2000: Georgi VladimovGeorgi VladimovGeorgi Nikolaevich Vladimov , real family name Volosevich was a Russian dissident writer.-Biography:...