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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...

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...

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...