The Shevchenko Foundation is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2020 Kobzar Book Award. Thank you to jury members Matt Bower, Dr. Lindy Ledohowski and Nino Ricci. The award will be presented at a celebration event on Thursday, March 12, 2020 in Toronto. To learn more visit https://
The Bone Mother, by David Demchuk (ChiZine Publications, 2017)
We All Need to Eat, by Alex Leslie (Book*hug Press, 2018)
Our Familiar Hunger, by Laisha Rosnau (Nightwood Editions, 2019)
The Stories Were Not Told; Canada’s First World War Internment Camps, by Sandra Semchuk (University of Alberta Press, 2019
The North End Revisited, by John Paskievich (University of Manitoba Press, 2017)