„Golden wreath" Award
„Golden wreath" Award
Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) (Macedonian: Струшки вечери на поезијата, СВП; tr. Struški večeri na poezijata, SVP) is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, North Macedonia. During the several decades of its existence, the Festival has awarded its most prestigious award, the Golden Wreath, to some of the most notable international poets, including: Mahmoud Darwish, Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyey, W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Allen Ginsberg, Bulat Okudzhava, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Artur Lundkvist, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nichita Stănescu, Ted Hughes, Ko Un, Adunis, Makoto Ooka, Miroslav Krleža, Yehuda Amichai, Seamus Heaney, Tomas Gösta Tranströmer, Bei Dao, Amir Or and domestic authors such as Blaže Koneski and Mateja Matevski.
Golden Wreath Award Winners
| 1966 | Robert Rozhdestvensky (20.06.1932–19.08.1994) | Russia |
| 1967 | Bulat Okudzhava (09.05.1924–12.06.1997) | Russia |
| 1968 | László Nagy (17.07.1925–30.01.1978) | Hungary |
| 1969 | Mak Dizdar (17.10.1917, Sarajevo – 14.07.1971, Sarajevo) | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 1970 | Miodrag Pavlović (28.11.1928, Novi Sad – 17.08.2014, Tuttlingen, Germany) | Serbia |
| 1971 | Wystan Hugh Auden (21.11.1907, York – 17.06.1973, Vienna) | USA |
| 1972 | Pablo Neruda (12.07.1904–23.09.1973) | Chile |
| 1973 | Eugenio Montale (12.10.1896, Genoa – 12.09.1981, Milan) | Italy |
| 1974 | Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (26.12.1914, Istanbul – 15.10.2008, Istanbul) | Turkey |
| 1975 | Léopold Sédar Senghor (09.10.1906–20.12.2001) | Senegal |
| 1976 | Eugène Guillevic (05.08.1907–19.03.1997) | France |
| 1977 | Artur Lundkvist (03.03.1906–11.12.1991) | Sweden |
| 1978 | Rafael Alberti (16.12.1902–28.10.1999) | Spain |
| 1979 | Miroslav Krleža (07.07.1893, Zagreb – 21.12.1981, Zagreb) | Croatia |
| 1980 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11.11.1928, Kaufbeuren – ) | Germany |
| 1981 | Blaže Koneski (19.12.1921, Nebregovo – 07.12.1993, Skopje) | Macedonia |
| 1982 | Nichita Stănescu (31.03.1933, Ploiești – 13.12.1983, Bucharest) | Romania |
| 1983 | Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan “Agyeya” (07.05.1911, Lucknow – 08.03.1989, New Delhi) | India |
| 1984 | Andrei Voznesensky (12.05.1933, Moscow – 01.06.2010, Peredelkino, Moscow) | Russia |
| 1985 | Yiannis Ritsos (01.05.1909–11.11.1995) | Greece |
| 1986 | Allen Ginsberg (03.06.1926–05.04.1997) | USA |
| 1987 | Tadeusz Różewicz (09.10.1921–24.04.2014) | Poland |
| 1988 | Desanka Maksimović (16.05.1898, Rabrovica, Valjevo – 11.02.1993, Belgrade) | Serbia |
| 1989 | Thomas Shapcott (21.03.1935, Ipswich – ) | Australia |
| 1990 | Justo Jorge Padrón (01.10.1943, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – 11.04.2021) | Spain |
| 1991 | Joseph Brodsky (24.05.1940–26.01.1996) | USA |
| 1992 | Ferenc Juhász (16.08.1928, Bia – 02.12.2015, Budapest) | Hungary |
| 1993 | Gennady Aygi (21.08.1934, Shaymurzino – 21.02.2006, Moscow) | Chuvash Republic, Russia |
| 1994 | Ted Hughes (17.08.1930–28.10.1998) | United Kingdom |
| 1995 | Yehuda Amichai (13.05.1924–22.09.2000) | Israel |
| 1996 | Makoto Ōoka (16.02.1931, Mishima – 05.04.2017) | Japan |
| 1997 | Adonis (01.01.1930 – ) | Syria |
| 1998 | Lu Yuan (03.07.1922, Wuhan – ) | China |
| 1999 | Yves Bonnefoy (24.06.1923, Tours – 01.07.2016, Paris) | France |
| 2000 | Edoardo Sanguineti (09.12.1930, Genoa – 18.05.2010) | Italy |
| 2001 | Seamus Heaney (08.07.1939, Mossbawn – 30.08.2013) | Ireland |
| 2002 | Slavko Mihalić (16.03.1928, Karlovac – 05.02.2007, Zagreb) | Croatia |
| 2003 | Tomas Tranströmer (15.04.1931–26.03.2015) | Sweden |
| 2004 | Vasco Graça Moura (03.01.1942, Porto – 27.04.2017, Lisbon) | Portugal |
| 2005 | W. S. Merwin (30.09.1927–15.03.2019) | USA |
| 2006 | Nancy Morejón (07.08.1944 – ) | Cuba |
| 2007 | Mahmoud Darwish (1942–2008) | Palestine |
| 2008 | Fatos Arapi (19.09.1930, Vlora – 11.10.2018) | Albania |
| 2009 | Tomaž Šalamun (04.07.1941, Zagreb – 27.12.2014, Ljubljana) | Slovenia |
| 2010 | Lyubomir Levchev (27.04.1935, Troyan – 25.09.2019) | Bulgaria |
| 2011 | Mateja Matevski (13.03.1929, Istanbul – 06.08.2018, Skopje) | Macedonia |
| 2012 | Mongane Wally Serote (1945, Johannesburg – ) | South Africa |
| 2013 | José Emilio Pacheco (30.06.1939, Mexico City – 2014) | Mexico |
| 2014 | Bei Dao (02.08.1949, Beijing – ) | China |
| 2015 | Ko Un (01.08.1933, Gunsan – ) | Korea |
| 2016 | Margaret Atwood (1939, Ottawa – ) | Canada |
| 2017 | Charles Simic (1938, Belgrade – ) | USA |
| 2018 | Adam Zagajewski (21.06.1945, Lviv – 21.03.2021) | Poland |
| 2019 | Ana Blandiana (1942, Timișoara – ) | Romania |
| 2020 | Amir Or (01.07.1956, Tel Aviv – ) | Israel |
| 2021 | Carol Ann Duffy (1955, Glasgow – ) | United Kingdom |
| 2022 | Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931 – ) | Japan |
| 2023 | Vlada Urošević (1934 – ) | Macedonia |
| 2024 | Jean-Pierre Siméon (1950 – ) | France |
| 2025 | Ivan Štrpka (1944 – ) | Slovakia |
| 2026 | Anneke Brassinga (1948 – ) | Netherlands |