The literary and artistic prize named after Vasyl Stus, a well-known poet and freethinker, was awarded in Kyiv recently. It is awarded to musicians, poets, and artists by the Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia, which includes friends of Vasyl Stus, dissidents, and well-known writers such as Yevhen Sverstiuk, Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska, and others. This prize has been awarded in Ukraine since 1989. Initially, its awarding took place in Lviv, but now this event has been moved to the capital. This year, on Vasyl's holiday, which has already become a tradition, this distinction at the capital's Teachers' House was received by our fellow countryman, a resident of Lutsk, poet, writer, and publisher Andrii Kryshtalskyi for the adventure novel "Chornomorets, matinko…," which was published in Lutsk in the spring of 2004, and for the founding and publication of the literary and artistic journal "Teren." Also, the editor of the journal "Kurier Kryvbasu" Hryhorii Huseinov and Ukrainian singer Mariika Burmaka became laureates of the literary and artistic prize named after Vasyl Stus.