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 – Sergey Zhenovach 2016 – Grigoriy Kruzhkov 2017 – 2018 – , 2019 – Eugene Vodolazkin 2020 – , Sergei Nekrasov

See also List of literary awards Prizes named after people

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