Pushkin Prize

Top

Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Wikipedia

The Pushkin Prize (Russian Пушкинская премия) was established in 1881 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the greatest Russian poets Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837). The prize was awarded to the Russian who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence. The prize was discontinued during the Soviet period. It was restored in 1989 by Alfred Toepfler fund in Hamburg.^[1] In 1995 the State Pushkin Prize was established by Boris Yeltsin decree (Sasha Sokolov being the first laureate). Both lasted till 2005. In 2005 the New Pushkin Prize was established by Aleksander Zhukov Fund, Puskin and Mikhaylovskoye museums.^[2]

Contents

1 Select list of winners
- 1.1 1990-2005
- 1.2 The New Pushkin Prize (2005-present)
2 See also
3 References

Select list of winners

Yakov Polonsky (1819-1898)
Apollon Maykov (1821-1897)
Nikolai Kholodkovsky (1858-1921)
Konstantin Stanyukovich (1843-1903)
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869-1905)
Aleksandr Kuprin (1870-1938)
Ferdinand de la Bart (1870-1915)

1990-2005

Andrey Bitov (1990)
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1991)
Fazil Iskander (1992)
Oleg Volkov (1992)
Dmitri Prigov (1993)
Timur Kibirov (1993)
Bella Akhmadulina (1994)
Semyon Lipkin (1995)
Sasha Sokolov (1995, 1996)
Anatoly Zhigulin (1996)
Viktor Astafyev (1997)
Vladimir Makanin (1998)
Oleg Chukhontsev (1998, 1999)
Alexander Kushner (1999)
Vadim Shefner (State Prize)
Yuri Mamleev (2000)
Novella Matveeva (State Prize)
Yuz Aleshkovsky (2001)
Igor Shklyarevsky (State Prize)
Yevgeny Rein (2003)
Boris Paramonov (2005)^[1]

The New Pushkin Prize (2005-present)

Sergey Bocharov (2005)
Yuri Kublanovsky (2006)
Alexey Lukyanov (2006)
Dmitry Novikov (2007)
Vyacheslav Pyetsukh (2007)
Valerya Pustovaya (2008)
Gleb Gorbovsky (2008)
Oleg Sivun (2009)
Valery Popov (2009)
Valentin Kurbatov (2010)
Irina Rodnyanskaya (2010)
Vera Milchina (2011)
Ildar Abuzyarov (2011)^[2]

References

This article about a literary award is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)

Donate to Wikimedia

Help us answer these

Why is there a cash prize for the Nobel prize?

What are the prize catogries for the nobel prize?

What prizes are equal to noble prizes?

What is 2011 archibald prize prize?

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

Copyrights:

Cite

Wikipedia on Answers.com This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Pushkin Prize. Read