Ljudmila Ulitzkaja
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya receives the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize 2023
Special prize for Ukrainian Sergiy Maidukov

The Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize, endowed with 25,000 euros, will be awarded to the Russian writer Lyudmila Yevgenyevna Ulitskaya, who has been living in exile in Berlin since March 2022. She is considered one of Russia's most important contemporary writers. She expresses her critical attitude towards the then Soviet and now Russian regime in novels and stories that reflect not only the Russian tragedy of the 20th century, a century of tyranny and genocide. Ukrainian cartoonist Sergiy Maidukov is awarded this year's special prize. Since the beginning of the war against Ukraine, his illustrations depicting the everyday life of war in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine have been printed in various newspapers around the world.

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Previous award winners

Every two years since 1991, the City of Osnabrück has awarded the Peace Prize named after the world-famous writer Erich Maria Remarque, who was born in Osnabrück.

The Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize has so far been awarded to

Special awards were given to Anja Lundholm (1991), Dörte von Westernhagen (1993), Milijenko Jergovic (1995), the Joint Czech-German Historical Commission (1997), the Founding Committee of the Association of Iranian Writers (1999), the International Society for Historical Enlightenment, Human Rights and Social Welfare MEMORIAL (2001), Yuri Andrukhovych (2005), Grigory Pasko (2007), Lukas Bärfuss (2009), the human rights organization PRO ASYL (2011), the EXIT Germany initiative (2013), Pulse of Europe (2017), and Sea-Watch (2019).

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