“Our Familiar Hunger” by Laisha Rosnau wins the 2020 Kobzar™ Book Award!
The Shevchenko Foundation is pleased to announce that Our Familiar Hunger, by Laisha Rosnau, published by Nightwood Editions, is the winner of the 2020 Kobzar™ Book Award.
Kobzar Book Award 2020 Shortlist
The Bone Mother, by David Demchuk (ChiZine Publications, 2017)
The North End Revisited, by John Paskievich (University of Manitoba Press, 2017)
Our Familiar Hunger, by Laisha Rosnau (Nightwood Editions, 2019)
The Stories Were Not Told: Canada’s First World War Internment Camps, by Sandra Semchuk (University of Alberta Press, 2019)
We All Need to Eat, by Alex Leslie (Book*hug Press, 2018)
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The KOBZAR™ Book Award
The $25,000 biennial KOBZAR™ Book Award (formerly the Kobzar™ Literary Award) recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who write on a topic with a tangible connection to the Ukrainian Canadian experience. Genres include literary non-fiction, fiction, poetry, young readers’ literature, play, screenplay and musical.
2020 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition Winner!
The Shevchenko Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition – Tanya Berezuk.
2020 Key Dates
Kobzar Book Award Celebration – March 12, 2020