b'PROGRAM KOBZAR BOOK AWARD FINALISTS WELCOMING REMARKSThe Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko congratulates the 2022 KOBZAR TMBook Award Boris Balan shortlisted authors and winner for their literary achievements in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.President, Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras ShevchenkoINTRODUCTORY REMARKS Terry MacLeod ENEMY ALIEN: A TRUE STORY OF LIFE BEHIND BARBED WIREMaster of CeremoniesBy Kassandra Luciuk, Illustrated by nicole marie burtonBetween the Lines 2020SPECIAL GUESTSZorianna and Eugene Hyworon DR. KASSANDRA LUCIUK is an Assistant Professor in Presenting Sponsorsthe Department of History at Dalhousie University. She is Petro Tarasoffthe author of several books and articles on the Ukrainian 2022 Writing Challenge experience in Canada, including Reinserting Radicalism: Hon. Senator Raynell Andreychuk Canadas First National Internment Operations, the Ukrainian KOBZAR Book Award Honorary Patron Left, and the Politics of Redress, in Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies.Matthew KruchakHer work explores how changing notions of Canadian 2022 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition citizenship interacted with ethnic identity during the Cold War. In a broader sense, her research interests include Canada, PRESENTATION OF 2022 KOBZAR BOOK AWARD FINALISTS migration/ethnicity, state formation, and nationalism.KASSANDRA LUCIUK Kassandra was awarded the 2020 Jean-Marie Fecteau Prize Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire by the Canadian Historical Association.Illustrated by nicole marie burton Illustrator NICOLE MARIE BURTON is a US-born, Introduction by Danny Schur, 2006 KOBZAR Literary Award Co-Winner Ontario-based artist and entrepreneur of Jewish-Ukrainian Reading by Ryan Boyko, Filmmaker, Director descent. Her work as an illustrator, publisher and educator That Never Happened: Canadas First National Internment Operationsfocuses on comics with social justice themes, ranging in Animation by Craig Watkins topics from Canadian history to the science of climate change. Enemy Alien is her second full-length graphic novel.ANGELINE SCHELLENBERGFields of Light and Stone ENEMY ALIEN: A TRUE STORY Introduction by Maurice Mierau, 2016 KOBZAR Literary Award Winner OF LIFE BEHIND BARBED WIRE Reading by Troy Ruptash, Actor/Screenwriter, Director They Who Surround Us tells the story of Canadas first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuks MARIA REVA actual memoir, which is the only comprehensive internee Good Citizens Need Not Fear testimony in existence. This graphic history follows Boychuk from his arrest in Toronto to Kapuskasing, where he spends Introduction by Dr. Lindy Ledohowski, 2018 KOBZAR Literary Award Winner just over three years, and subsequently traces Boychuks parole, Reading by Luba Goy, 2014 KOBZAR Literary Award Winner his search for work, his attempts to organize a union, and his ultimate settlement in Winnipeg.DISCUSSION WITH KOBZAR BOOK AWARD JURY "This graphic novel tells a great story in an innovative format which is a spot-on ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2022 KOBZAR BOOK AWARD WINNER reflection of the Ukrainian-Canadian experience. The material was presented with integrity and in a format accessible to a wide audience.KOBZAR Book Award Jury'