AAUS is pleased to announce prize winners in the Best Article and the Best Translation categories in this year’s competition. Book Prize competition winner will be announced in September 2020. For the time being, AAUS plans to honor the prize winners at the AAUS business meeting during this year’s ASEEES in Washington D.C.
Article Prize:
Winner: Valeria Sobol for her article “’Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish’s Gothic Ukraine,” Slavic Review, Vol. 78, No. 2 (Summer 2019). https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2019.94
Honorable mention: Rory Finnin for his article “’A Bridge Between Us’: Literature in the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Encounter,” Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 56, No. 2 (2019). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/729462
Translation Prize:
Winner: Ostap Kin for "New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City," edited and with an introduction by Ostap Kin (Academic Studies Press, 2019). https://www.academicstudiespress.com/ukrainianstudies/new-york-elegies
Honorable mention: Olena Jennings and Iryna Shuvalova for "Pray to the Empty Wells," poems by Iryna Shuvalova translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and Iryna Shuvalova (Lost Horse Press, 2019). http://www.losthorsepress.org/catalog/pray-to-the-empty-wells/