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Honorary Patrons
The Right Honourable
Adrienne Clarkson
The Honourable Senator
Raynell Andreychuk
Joy Kogawa
Nino Ricci
Advisors during Phase One:
Nik Burton
Coteau Books
Kitty Lewis
Brick Books
Jack Rabinovitch
Scotia Giller Prize
Antanas Sileika
Humber College School for Writers
Geoffrey Taylor
Harbourfront International Authors Festival
Nora Taylor
Charles Taylor Prize for Non Fiction |
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The Kobzar Literary $25,000 Biennial Award
recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who develop a Ukrainian
Canadian theme with literary merit in one of several
genres: literary non-fiction, fiction, poetry, young
readers literature, plays, screenplays and musicals.
Kobzar Literary Award Shortlist 2012
 Larissa Andrusyshyn
Mammoth
DC Books;
Montreal, Quebec, 2010
Andrusyshyn's debut collection of poetry honors the memory of her father Ivan, a paleontologist. With scientific metaphors, the poems explore a daughter's bereavement with "complex artistic vision and a nuanced treatment of a Ukrainian Canadian theme". |
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 Myrna Kostash
Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium
University of Alberta Press;
Edmonton, Alberta, 2010
Kostash's creative non-fiction is "impressively researched" and timely as a personal journey that examines the shifting parameters of ethnic, national and religious identity for those interested in Canadian Ukrainian culture and the Eastern Church. |
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 Shandi Mitchell
Under This Unbroken Sky
Penguin Group Canada;
Toronto, Ontario, 2009
A "compelling" and poignant narrative that "honours the ancestry of many Canadian Ukrainians". During the depression era, Mitchell's memorable characters valiantly face betrayal and every hardship that prairie life renders in their search for a better life. |
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 Myroslav Shkandrij
Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation and Identity
Yale University Press;
London, 2009
Shkandrij provides an "impressive", "scholarly" and "elegant" work that is accessible to lay readers. The relationship between Jews and Ukrainians emerges through an analysis of literary works that enables understanding of diversity in Ukraine and explicates interpretations of Ukrainian identity in Canada.
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 Rhea Tregebov
The Knife Sharpener's Bell
Coteau Books;
Regina, Saskatchewan, 2009
With a "poet's sense of the importance of language and image", Tregebov sheds light on a part of Ukrainian and Canadian history that is rarely presented. To escape from their disappointments in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, a Jewish immigrant family returns to Odessa with great hopes for experiencing an ideal communist life. |
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Key Dates
Submission deadlines
for
Award Announcements
March 15, 2011 for
2012 award presentation
March 15, 2013 for
2014 award presentation
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