Video: Announcement — winner of the Encounter Literary Prize
Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, and Ukraine's NGO Publishers' Forum (Lviv, Ukraine) are pleased to announce that Solid. The Life-Saving Footwear Factory («Солід. Взуттєва фабрика життя»), written by Yuriy Skira and published in 2023 by Choven, a publishing house based in Lviv, Ukraine, is the fourth winner of Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize
The award ceremony for the Encounter prize will be live-streamed on 4 October at 1:30 pm EST (6:30 pm UK time) from the 2024 Lviv BookForum. Registration to watch the event will shortly be available on the NGO Publishers' Forum website.
On 10 September, the prize winner was announced at a press conference in Kyiv. Below is a Ukrainian-language video from the event, during which the long-listed and short-listed books were also discussed.
Organizers:
Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Ukrainian Book Institute, the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter with the support of the NGO Publishers' Forum.
Participants:
- Olexander Scherba — Ukrainian diplomat and author who worked as Ambassador of Ukraine to Austria in 2014–2021, Jury head;
- Iuliia Bentia — Executive Editor at Krytyka journal, Senior Research Fellow at the Modern Art Research Institute, the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Jury member;
- Vitaliy Nakhmanovych — historian, ethnopolitical scientist, museologist, public figure, leading researcher of the Kyiv Museum of History;
- Oleksandra Koval — acting director of the Ukrainian Book Institute;
- Natalia A. Feduschak — Director of Communications, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.
