The Pushkin Prize was established in 1881 by Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the greatest Russian poets Aleksandr 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 the 1990s.
Contents |
Incomplete list of winners
Before 1917
- Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
- Ferdinand de la Bart
- Nikolai Kholodkovsky (1858-1921)
- Konstantin Stanyukovich (1843-1903)
After 1991
- Vladimir Makanin
- Arna W. Bontemps (1926)
- Oleg Chukhontsev (1938-)
- Yevgeny Rein
- Genrikh Sapgir
- Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov (1993)
- Tamara Anatolievna Kazakova
- Alexander Kushner (2001)
