The $25,000 prize recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who write on a topic with a connection to the experiences of Ukrainian Canadians.
The heart-rending stupidity of the famine, which killed millions of Ukrainians, the cruelty of some humans and heroism of others all build into a high-speed page-turner.
Five Stalks of Grain Adrian Lysenko and Ivanka Theodosia Galadza, ill. University of Calgary Press, Nov. During the 1930s, the Holodomor, a man-made famine, killed millions of Ukrainians. At the time, Soviet officials vowed to execute any person found to be hoarding even “five stalks of grain.” This poignant (and, sadly, timely) work of historical