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KOBZAR™ Book Award 2026 Shortlist Announced
The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko is pleased to announce the shortlisted titles for the 2026 KOBZAR Book Award. Presented every other year, the $25,000 KOBZAR Book Award recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who...
2025 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition Winner
Camille PavlenkoShevchenko Foundation Announces Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition Winner Winnipeg, January 23, 2025 – Camille Pavlenko, Alberta writer, early-career playwright, and theatre artist, has been selected winner of The Shevchenko Foundation Emerging...
“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...
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...