Vasyl Stus Prize

Vasyl Stus Prize
Awarded for...awarded authors, who have outstanding achievements in their field, take a clear public position, actively present in the Ukrainian cultural space
CountryUkrainian SSR / Ukraine
First award1989

The Vasyl Stus Prize (Ukrainian: 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. The prize was set up by the Ukrainian Association of the Independent Creative Intelligentsia and awarded every year on the poet Stus's date of birth, in Lviv. In 1990 it moved to Kyiv.

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