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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...

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,...

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 humor particular to post-Soviet nations. – KOBZAR Book Award Jury Canadian writer Maria Reva is the winner...

KOBZAR™ Book Award 2022 Shortlist Announced Winnipeg – The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko is pleased to announce the shortlisted titles for the 2022 KOBZAR™ Book Award. Presented biennially, the $25,000 KOBZAR™ Book Award recognizes outstanding...

“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. Ms Rosnau was presented...