Village prose (Russian: Деревенская проза, or Деревенская литература) was a movement in Soviet literature that began during the Khrushchev Thaw. This movement included works that focused on life in Soviet rural communities. Some people believe that critical essays about collectivization in the magazine Novyi mir by Valentin Ovechkin started the village prose movement. However, most works linked to this genre are fictional novels and short stories. Writers connected to village prose include Aleksander Yashin, Fyodor Abramov, Boris Mozhayev, Vasily Belov, Viktor Astafyev, Vladimir Soloukhin, Vasily Shukshin, and Valentin Rasputin. Some critics also include Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in this group because of his short novel Matryona's Place.

Many village prose works showed a positive view of traditional Russian village life. These works became more closely linked to Russian nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s. Some people argue that the nationalist ideas in village prose explain why the Soviet government supported writers like Valentin Rasputin (who joined the Writers' Union) during the Time of Stagnation. This was a period when the government censored other groups, such as Youth and Urban Prose, more heavily.