TORONTO—Every New Year heralds hope for meaningful change. Some hopes are ephemeral, and others enduring, the result of years of planning or a simple leap of faith.
“The Encounter Prize was created so that Ukrainian writers will focus on the problems of Ukrainian-Jewish relations”—Pavlyshyn
[Editor’s note: This interview aired on Ukraine’s Hromadske Radio before Eternal Calendar by Vasyl Makhno was named winner of “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize”™ on 16 September 2020 at the 27th Lviv International BookForum. The...






















