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“Ghosts in a Photograph” by Myrna Kostash wins the 2024 KOBZAR™ Book Award
Winnipeg, March 21, 2024 – The Shevchenko Foundation is pleased to announce that Ghosts in a Photograph, by Myrna Kostash, published by NeWest Press, is the winner of the 2024 KOBZAR™ Book Award. The announcement was made at a gala award ceremony held at the Canadian...
KOBZAR Book Award Shortlisted Authors
NATALIE KONONENKO was Professor and Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography at the University of Alberta until her retirement in 2019. She holds degrees from Radcliffe College and Harvard University. Prior to coming to the University of Alberta, Kononenko taught at the...
Shevchenko Foundation Announces Winner of 2024 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition
Winnipeg, January 25, 2024 – The Shevchenko Foundation is pleased to announce that early-career playwright, theatre artist, and writer Camille Pavlenko is the winner of the 2024 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition for her story The Cure for Breathlessness....
KOBZAR™ Book Award 2024 Shortlist Announced
The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko is pleased to announce the shortlisted titles for the 2024 KOBZAR™ Book Award. Presented every other year, the $25,000 KOBZAR™ Book Award recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors...
Melissa Morelli Lacroix wins 2023 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition
Winnipeg, January 24, 2023 – The Shevchenko Foundation is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition is Melissa Morelli Lacroix for her story titled Ivan and Irene. Melissa Morelli Lacroix is a Saskatchewan-born writer,...
Maria Reva wins 2022 KOBZAR Book Award
A fascinating book, brutal, hilarious and ‘completely bonkers.’ It embraces the grotesque and the absurd in a way which is reflective of a sensibility and dark humour particular to post-Soviet nations. – KOBZAR Book Award Jury Maria Reva is the winner of the 2022...