Solzhenitsyn Prize
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The Solzhenitsyn Prize is a a non-governmental Russian literary award
established by the Russian
writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1997.
The $25,000 prize is awarded for "works in which troubles of the Russian life are shown with rare moral purity and sense of tragedy, for consecutiveness and steadiness in search of truth".
Literary award
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established by the Russian
Russians
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writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1997.
The $25,000 prize is awarded for "works in which troubles of the Russian life are shown with rare moral purity and sense of tragedy, for consecutiveness and steadiness in search of truth".
Laureates
- 1998 — Vladimir ToporovVladimir ToporovVladimir Nikolayevich Toporov was a leading Russian philologist associated with the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school. His wife was Tatyana Elizarenkova....
- 1999 — Inna Lisnianskaya
- 2000 — Valentin RasputinValentin RasputinValentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin is a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life...
- 2001 — Konstantin Vorobiev (posthumous), Yevgeni Nosov
- 2002 — Aleksandr Panarin, Leonid BorodinLeonid BorodinLeonid Ivanovich Borodin was a Russian novelist and journalist. Born in Irkutsk, Borodin was a Christian and a Soviet dissident. In the 1960s he belonged to the anti-Communist All-Russian Social-Christian Union...
- 2003 — Olga Sedakova, Yuri Kublanovskij
- 2004 — Vladimir BortkoVladimir BortkoVladimir Vladimirovich Bortko , born on May 7, 1946 in Moscow, is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.-Biography:...
, Yevgeny MironovYevgeny Mironov (actor)Yevgeny Mironov is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation , People's Artist of Russia , State Prize of the Russian Federation laureate . Yevgeny Mironov lives and works in Moscow, Russia.- Early life :Yevgeny Mironov was born in Saratov... - 2005 — Igor Zolotusskij
- 2006 — Alexei Varlamov
- 2007 — Sergei Bocharov, Andrey ZaliznyakAndrey ZaliznyakAndrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak, is a Russian linguist who specializes in the research of linguistic monuments of Old Novgorod....
- 2008 — Boris Ekimov
- 2009 — Viktor Astafyev (posthumous)
- 2010 — Valentin YaninValentin YaninValentin Lavrentievich Yanin is a leading Russian historian who has authored 700 books and articles. He has also edited a number of important journals and primary sources, including works on medieval Russian law, sphragistics and epigraphy, archaeology and history...
See also
- List of literary awards
- Prizes named after peoplePrizes named after peopleThis is a list of prizes that are named after people.For other lists of eponyms see Lists of etymologies.* Ansari X Prize - Anousheh Ansari, Amir Ansari* Prince of Asturias Awards - Felipe, Prince of Asturias-A:...