Vasyl Stus Prize

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

Winners
Among the winners (which is already over 60):


 * Olena Golub
 * Mykola Horbal
 * Maria Burmaka
 * Olga Bogomolets
 * Igor Zhuk
 * Opanas Zalyvakha
 * Taras Kompanichenko
 * Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska
 * Ivanna Krypyakevych
 * Volodymyr Kuchynsky
 * Raisa Lysha
 * Sergiy Moroz
 * Kost Moskalets
 * Vasyl Ovsienko
 * Ivan Svitlichny
 * Nadiya Svitlychna
 * Liudmyla Semykina
 * Halyna Sevruk
 * Galyna Stefanova
 * The Telnyuk Sisters
 * Moysey Fishbein
 * Valeriy Franchuk
 * Oleksandr Riabokrys
 * Myroslav Marynovych
 * Iryna Zhylenko
 * Yevgen Zakharov
 * Lyubov Panchenko
 * Oleksandr Polozhynskyi
 * Serhii Babkin
 * Taras Voznyak