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Solzhenitsyn Prize
The Solzhenitsyn Prize is 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". The prize is financed by royalties from sales of ''The Gulag Archipelago''. Laureates *1998 – Vladimir Toporov *1999 – Inna Lisnyanskaya *2000 – Valentin Rasputin *2001 – Konstantin Vorobyov (posthumous), Yevgeny Nosov *2002 – Aleksandr Panarin, Leonid Borodin *2003 – Olga Sedakova, Yuri Kublanovskij *2004 – Vladimir Bortko, Yevgeny Mironov *2005 – Igor Zolotussky *2006 – Alexei Varlamov *2007 – Sergei Bocharov, Andrey Zaliznyak *2008 – Boris Ekimov *2009 – Viktor Astafyev (posthumous) *2010 – Valentin Yanin *2011 – Yelena Chukovskaya *2012 – Oleg Pavlov *2013 – Maxim Amelin *2014 – Irina Rodnyanskaya *2015 – Serge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |