The Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage (1990–2007) was an annual literary prize established in the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

by the "Writers in Support of

Perestroika ''Perestroika'' ( ; rus, перестройка, r=perestrojka, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg, links=no) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associ ...

" association (also known as the "Aprel" (April) association), in October 1990."For Writer's Civic Courage"
, ''

Literaturnaya Gazeta ''Literaturnaya Gazeta'' (, ''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 was revived in 1929. Overview The current newspa ...

'', 31 October 1990 It ceased to exist in 2007, when the "Aprel" association was dissolved. The first recipient of the prize was

Lydia Chukovskaya Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya ( rus, Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская, p=ˈlʲidʲɪjə kɐrˈnʲejɪvnə tɕʊˈkofskəjə, a=Lidiya Kornyeyevna Chukovskaya.ru.vorb.oga; – February 7, 1996) was a Soviet and Russian writ ...

. 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:

(1907–1996) * 1991:

Bulat Okudzhava Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (; ka, ბულატ ოკუჯავა; ; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders o ...

(1924–1997),

Fazil Iskander Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (6 March 1929 – 31 July 2016) was a Soviet and Russian"There's no doubt I'm a Russian writer who praised Abkhazia a lot. Unfortunately, I haven't written anything in the Abkhaz language. The choice of Russian culture ...

(1929–2016) * 1993: Boris Chichibabin (1923–1994) * 1995:

Semyon Lipkin Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin () (6 September 1911 – 31 March 2003) was a Russian writer, poet, and literary translator. Lipkin's work gained wider recognition after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was supported by his wife, poet Inna Lisn ...

(1911–2003),

Lev Razgon Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon (; 1 April 1908 – 8 September 1999) was a Soviet Russian journalist, writer, a prisoner of the Gulag from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1950 to 1955 and, latterly, a human rights activist. Razgon was born in Belorussia t ...

(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 Battle ...

(1919–2017) * 1997: Boris Vasilyev (1924–2013) * 1998: Zoya Krakhmalnikova (1929–2008) * 2000: Georgi Vladimov (1931–2003) * 2002:

Vladimir Voinovich Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich (; 26 September 1932 – 27 July 2018) was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system. Among his most well-known works are the satirical epic ' ...

(1932) * 2003: Mikhail Roshchin (1933–2010) * 2004: Yunna Morits (1937) * 2005: Nikolai Panchenko (1924–2005) * 2007: Galina Drobot (1917–2009)

References

Russian literary awards {{lit-award-stub