Video: Award ceremony for the 2024 Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize
Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize is designed to be based on the common centuries-old experience of Ukrainians and Jews, which has found expression in fiction and nonfiction literature. The prize is awarded annually for the most influential work of fiction and nonfiction (in 2024 — nonfiction) that promotes Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping to strengthen the position of Ukraine as a multi-ethnic society and embodying the motto "Our stories are incomplete without each other."
The award ceremony for the 2024 prize was held on 4 October at the Lviv BookForum with the participation of Ukrainian writer Yuriy Skira, whose nonfiction book Solid. The Life-Saving Footwear Factory won the 2024 prize. Also participating were Ihor Balynskyy, co-founder of the Choven publishing house; jury members Iuliia Bentia, Executive Editor at Krytyka journal and Senior Research Fellow at the Modern Art Research Institute, the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (Ukraine); Alexander J. Motyl, professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, writer, and painter (United States); Yegor Vradii, a member of Ukraine's armed forces who read a statement on behalf of jury head Olexander Scherba (Ukraine), a Ukrainian diplomat and author who worked as Ambassador of Ukraine to Austria in 2014–2021 and who was unable to attend; Igor Shchupak, Board Member, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter; and Natalia A. Feduschak, UJE's communications director who coordinates the prize. Andriy Pavlyshyn, Ukrainian journalist, public figure, historian and translator, moderated the event.
Video: Award ceremony for the 2024 Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize, 4 October 2024, Lviv, Ukraine
Event begins at 04:25
https://www.hayfestival.com/p-22622-iulia-bentia-yuriy-skira-ihor-balynskyy-and-oleksandr-motyl-and-igor-shchupak-in-conversation-with-natalia-a-feduschak.aspx?skinid=16
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https://www.hayfestival.com/p-20786-ukrainian-jewish-encounter-prize-ceremony.aspx?skinid=16
