The Rudolf Medek Prize
The Rudolf Medek Prize was established by Committed Non-Party Members Foundation and the Slavonic Library and awarded for the first time in 2008. Its goal is to reward scholars, writers, publishers, filmmakers, journalists and other specialists in Czech-Russian (Czechoslovak-Soviet) relations in the 20th century, in historical tendencies and key moments of East and Central Europe and in promoting and strengthening of democracy.
The prize is named after Rudolf Medek (1890–1940) – a Czech poet, prose-writer and playwright, the leading representative of the Czechoslovak resistance in the WWI. Since 1916, he fought in the Czechoslovak legions in Russia where he sourced for his poetic work (”Zborov”, ”Lví srdce”), 5-book prose collection ”Anabase” (Ohnivý drak, Veliké dny, Ostrov v bouři, Mohutný sen, Anabase) and the play ”Plukovník Švec” as well. In 1920–1939, he served as the director of the Resistance Monument (later called National Liberation Memorial). The Rudolf Medek Prize was established under the patronage of Rudolf Medek’s son Ivan Medek.
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The main topics for nomination include:
- Czechoslovak resistance abroad during the WWI and Czechoslovak legions in Russia
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Ceremonies and Prize Winners
2008 – Vladimír Bystrov
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2009 – Jaromír Štětina, Václav Konzal, Luboš Dobrovský
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2010 – Karel Hvížďala, Petr Fischer
The scholarship was granted for the international revue ”Rossica”
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2011 – Václav Veber
The scholarship was granted to Martin Ryšavý
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2012 – Libor Dvořák, Milan Dvořák
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2014 - Paul Robert Magocsi, Anastasia Kopřivová
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2015 – Marta Dandová, Raisa Machatková
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2016 – Edmund Orián, Václav Daněk
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2017 - Mečislav Borák (in memoriam), Martin C. Putna
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2018 - Jaroslav Vaculík, Petr Kolář
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2019 - Tomáš Vlach, Marta Nováková
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2020 – Jiří Charfreitag, Milan Mojžíš
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