The Vasyl Stus Prize ( uk, 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 Vasyl Semenovych Stus ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; 6 January 1938, Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR – 4 September 1985, Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active ...

. 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 Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

.The Association of independent creative intelligentsia awarded its Vasyl Stus prizes. By khpg.org at 2000/12/08
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Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

Winners

Among the winners (which is already over 60): * Olena Golub *

Mykola Horbal Mykola Andriyovych Horbal ( uk, Мико́ла Андрі́йович Го́рбаль; born September 10, 1940) is a well-known Ukrainian dissident, human right activist, member of parliament of Ukraine, poet, and member of the Ukrainian Helsink ...

Maria Burmaka Maria Burmaka ( uk, Марія Бурмака; born June 16, 1970 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian singer, musician, and songwriter in the genres of rock, pop, folk, and world music. Biography Maria Burmaka is a Ukrainian singer and mus ...

Olga Bogomolets Olha Bohomolets ( uk, Ольга Вадимівна Богомолець, Olha Vadymivna Bohomolets, russian: Ольга Вадимовна Богомолец, Olga Vadimovna Bogomolets; born March 22, 1966) is a Ukrainian physician, singer and ...

* Igor Zhuk * Opanas Zalyvakha * Taras Kompanichenko * Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska * Ivanna Krypyakevych * Volodymyr Kuchynsky * Raisa Lysha * Sergiy Moroz * Kost Moskalets * Vasyl Ovsienko * Ivan Svitlichny *

Nadiya Svitlychna Nadiya Oleksiyivna Svitlychna ( uk, Наді́я Олексі́ївна Світли́чна, born 8 November 1936, the village of Polovynkyno, Starobilsk district, Luhansk region — 8 August 2006, Irvington, New Jersey, United States) was a Ukr ...

* Liudmyla Semykina *

Halyna Sevruk Halyna Sylvestrivna Sevruk ( uk, Галина Сильвестрівна Севрук, ) (18 May 1929 – 13 February 2022) was a Ukrainian artist who was particularly notable for her ceramics and mosaics. Her art often incorporated themes relate ...

* Galyna Stefanova * The Telnyuk Sisters * Moysey Fishbein * Valeriy Franchuk * Oleksandr Riabokrys * Myroslav Marynovych *

Iryna Zhylenko Irina (Iraida) Volodymyrivna Zhylenko (28 April 1941 – 3 August 2013), a Ukraine, Ukrainian poet, was the a wife of Volodymyr Drozd. She was born in Kyiv and died in August 2013 at the age of 72. Biography In 1964, she graduated from the Tar ...

Yevgen Zakharov Yevgen Yukhymovych Zakharov (born 12 November 1952) is a Ukrainian human rights activist and Member of the Ukrainian PEN. He is a Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group. He ...

* Lyubov Panchenko

References and footnotes

{{reflist Visual arts awards Ukrainian literary awards Ukrainian culture Awards established in 1989 Ukrainian art *

Winners

See also

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