Event photos: Scenes from Keefer’s Kobzar win
Last week Janice Kulyk Keefer won the $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award, which honours writing with Ukrainian-Canadian themes. She won the prize at an event at Toronto’s Palais Royale. (Photos by Lu Taskey and courtesy of the Kobzar Literary Awards.)
Keefer stands at centre stage, flanked by (left to right) actor Fred Keating, the evening’s emcee; Shevchenko Foundation president Andrew Hladyshevsky; Senator Raynell Andreychuk; and Joy Kogawa.
Nominee Roman Fodchuk reads from his book, Zhorna: Material Culture of the Ukrainian Pioneers (University of Calgary Press)
A now fedora-less Fodchuk receives a plaque from Senator Andreychuk.
The four Kobzar finalists: Lisa Grekul, Keefer, Marusya Bociurkiw, and Fodchuk.
