Republished September 12, 2017 - 10:31 AM
Original Publication Date September 12, 2017 - 6:26 AM
TORONTO - Five finalists have been named to the short list for the biennial $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award.
Four non-fiction titles and a work of poetry are among the contenders for the prize.
The finalists are:
— Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski, editors for "Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home" (University of Toronto Press)
— Bohdan S. Kordan for "No Free Man: Canada, the Great War and the Enemy Alien Experience," (McGill-Queen's University Press)
— Natalia Khanenko-Friesen for "Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century," (University of Wisconsin Press)
— Erin Moure for "Kapusta," (House of Anansi Press)
— Alexandra Risen for "Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden (A Memoir)," (Viking)
Launched in 2003, the award recognizes contributions to Canadian literary arts through a Ukrainian Canadian theme.
The prize is presented by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko.
The jury includes writer, critic and scholar Randy Boyagoda, literary non-fiction writer and political and cultural commentator Charlotte Gray, and poet and non-fiction writer Maurice Mierau, winner of the 2016 Kobzar Literary Award.
Each of the finalists will read from their nominated works at a special event during the Toronto International Festival of Authors on Oct. 21.
The winner will be announced at a gala presentation in Toronto next March.
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version misspelled the name of Maurice Mierau.
News from © The Canadian Press, 2017