KOBZAR Book Award (Kobzar Literary Award)

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A biennial literary award that recognizes outstanding contributions to literary works on Ukrainian-Canadian themes.

literary non-fictionFictionPoetryyoung readers' literatureplaysscreenplaysmusicals

Established: 2003
Organizer: Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko (Shevchenko Foundation)
Category: Poetry and Contemporary Poetry
Selection Method: Selection
Target: Professional
Frequency: Biennial (every 2 years)
Announcement Period: around March
Status: Active

Description

Established by the Shevchenko Foundation in 2003, with the first awards ceremony in 2006. This award targets works of literary merit dealing with Ukrainian-Canadian themes and is presented in multiple genres such as fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, children's literature, plays, screenplays, and musicals. The prize is CA$25,000. In 2020, it launched the Shevchenko Foundation Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition (CA$1,500) for emerging writers.