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Largest Literary Prizes.* Top 10
Rank in the rating Name of prize Size
1 Nobel Prize in literature 10 million Swedish kroner ($1.33 million)
2 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 100 000 euros ($120 000)**
3 Triumf (Russian independent prize for high achievements in literature and art) $50 000
4-5 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prize $25 000
4-5 Apollon Grigorev Prize $25 000
6 Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize named after Lev Tolstoi $20 000***
7 Pushkin Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation (Germany) 15 000 euros ($18 000)
8-9 Great Literary Prize of Russia $15 000
8-9 Booker – Open Russia $15 000
10 Russian Federation State Prize in Literature and Art 300 000 rubles ($10 090)

*The rating lists only prizes whose winners or nominees have been Russian (or Soviet) writers.
**If the author wrote the book in a language other than English, the translator receives one-quarter of the prize.
***In the category “outstanding work of Russian literature.”
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