The Solzhenitsyn Prize is a non-governmental Russian

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. ...

established by the Russian writer

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repr ...

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 Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Топоро́в; 5 July 1928 in Moscow5 December 2005 in Moscow) was a leading Russian philologist associated with the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school. His wife was T ...

*1999 –

Inna Lisnyanskaya Inna Lisnyanskaya or Inna Lisnianskaya () was a Jewish-Russian poet from USSR, later Russia. Her most creative period of writing occurred in the village for poets and writers of Peredelkino near Moscow, where she lived with her husband and co-wo ...

*2000 –

Valentin Rasputin Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (; russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 193714 March 2015) was a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's w ...

*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 Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD ...

Andrey Zaliznyak Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak ( rus, Андре́й Анато́льевич Зализня́к, p=zəlʲɪˈzʲnʲak; 29 April 1935 – 24 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, an expert in historical linguistics, accentology, dialec ...

*2008 – Boris Ekimov *2009 – Viktor Astafyev (posthumous) *2010 –

Valentin Yanin Valentin Lavrentievich Yanin (russian: Валентин Лаврентьевич Янин; 6 February 1929 – 2 February 2020) was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles. He had also edited a number of important journals ...

*2011 –

Yelena Chukovskaya Yelena or Jelena is a feminine given name. It is the Russian form of Helen, written Елена in Russian. Notable people called Yelena *Yelena Afanasyeva (born 1967), former Russian athlete who competed in the 800 metres * Yelena Vladimiro ...

*2012 –

Oleg Pavlov Oleg Pavlov ( Russian: Олег Олегович Павлов; 16 March 1970 – 7 October 2018) was a prominent Russian writer and winner of the Russian Booker Prize. He was only 24 years old when his first novel, ''Captain of the Steppe'', w ...

*2013 –

Maxim Amelin Maxim Albertovich Amelin (russian: Максим Альбертович Амелин; born 7 January 1970) is a Russian poet, critic, essayist, editor, and translator. He was born in Kursk, Russia, where he graduated from the Kursk Commercial Colleg ...

*2014 – Irina Rodnyanskaya *2015 –

Sergey Zhenovach Sergey Vasilyevich Zhenovach (russian: Сергей Васильевич Женовач; born 15 May 1957, Potsdam, GDR) is a Soviet and Russian theater director, teacher, рrofessor. Founder and artistic Director Of the Studio Of Theatrical Art si ...

*2016 –

Grigoriy Kruzhkov Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names. It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels. Grigory * Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist * Grigory Barenblatt (1927 ...

*2017 – Vladimir Enisherlov ( :ru: Енишерлов, Владимир Петрович) *2018 – Sergey Lyubayev ( :ru: Любаев, Сергей Викторович), Victor Britvin ( :ru: Бритвин, Виктор Глебович) *2019 –

Eugene Vodolazkin Eugene Germanovich Vodolazkin (Евгений Германович Водолазкин) is a Russian-Ukrainian scholar and author. Born in Kiev in 1964, he graduated from the Philological Department of Kiev University in 1986. In the same year, ...

*2020 – Natalya Mikhailova ( :ru: Михайлова, Наталья Ивановна), Sergei Nekrasov

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