2018 Kobzar Literary Award Shortlist
The Shevchenko Foundation has announced the shortlist for the biennial $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award. The winner will be announced in March 2018 at a gala presentation in Toronto. The five finalist books – 4 non-fiction and one work of poetry – include: a book of original essays by contemporary Ukrainian-Canadian writers; a scholarly examination of the internment of Ukrainian/Galician-Canadians in Canada during the Great War; an anthropological perspective on the rituals and experiences of Ukrainian-Canadians; a long-form poem investigating the poet’s family background in what is now Western Ukraine; and a memoir about reclaiming one’s heritage through gardening. The jury, composed of writer, critic and scholar Randy Boyagoda; literary non-fiction writer and political and cultural commentator Charlotte Gray CM; and poet and non-fiction writer Maurice Mireau, winner of the 2016 Kobzar Literary Award, selected the following as the shortlist... (as well as Natalia Khanenko-Friesen for Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century, published by University of Wisconsin Press )
