The Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage (1990–2007) was an annual literary prize established in the
Soviet Union by the "Writers in Support of
Perestroika
''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...
" association (also known as the "Aprel" (April) association), in October 1990.
["For Writer's Civic Courage"]
, ''Literaturnaya Gazeta
''Literaturnaya Gazeta'' (russian: «Литературная Газета», ''Literary Gazette'') is a weekly cultural and political newspaper published in Russia and the Soviet Union. It was published for two periods in the 19th century, and ...
'', 31 October 1990 It ceased to exist in 2007, when the "Aprel" association was dissolved.
The first recipient of the prize was
Lydia Chukovskaya.
[ The last recipient was Galina Drobot, editor-in-chief of the "Aprel" almanac. As the following list of recipients indicates, the prize was a "lifetime achievement" award and went to established figures. In this respect, it differed from the Andrei Sakharov "Journalism as an Act of Conscience" Award, which was first awarded in 2004.
]
Recipients
* 1990: Lydia Chukovskaya[ (1907–1996)
* 1991: Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997), ]Fazil Iskander
Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (russian: Фази́ль Абду́лович Исканде́р; ab, Фазиль Абдул-иԥа Искандер; 6 March 1929 – 31 July 2016) was a Soviet and Russian"There's no doubt I'm a Russian writer who pr ...
(1929–2016)
* 1993: Boris Chichibabin (1923–1994)
* 1995: Semyon Lipkin (1911–2003), Lev Razgon
Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon (russian: Лев Эммануи́лович Разго́н; 1 April 1908 – 8 September 1999) was a Soviet journalist, a prisoner of the Gulag from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1950 to 1955, a Russian writer and, latterly ...
(1908–1999), Yuri Davydov (1924)
* 1996: Elena Rzhevskaya
Elena Moiseevna Rzhevskaya (Russian: Еле́на Моисе́евна Рже́вская, born Elena Kagan; 27 October 1919 – 25 April 2017) was a writer and former Soviet war interpreter. In April and May, 1945, she participated in the Batt ...
(1919–2017)
* 1997: Boris Vasilyev (1924–2013)
* 1998: Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008)
* 2000: Georgi Vladimov (1931–2003)
* 2002: Vladimir Voinovich
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Войно́вич, 26 September 1932 – 27 July 2018), was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the S ...
(1932)
* 2003: Mikhail Roshchin (1933–2010)
* 2004: Yunna Morits (1937)
* 2005: Nikolai Panchenko (1924–2005)
* 2007: Galina Drobot (1917–2009)
References
Russian literary awards
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