by Iryna Mycak | Nov 5, 2025
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...
by Iryna Mycak | Jan 22, 2025
Camille Pavlenko Shevchenko 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...
by Iryna Mycak | Mar 22, 2024
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...
by Iryna Mycak | Mar 12, 2024
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...
by Iryna Mycak | Jan 24, 2024
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....
by Iryna Mycak | Nov 2, 2023
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...
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