Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Khrystyna Semeryn Awarded the 2025 Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize

Khrystyna Semeryn has been awarded with Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize for Centuries of Presence. The Jewish World in Ukrainian Short Prose of the 1880s–1930s, an anthology book published in 2024 by Kyiv-based Dukh i Litera. Founded in 2019, Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize is awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine’s place as a multiethnic society and giving truth to the motto, “Our stories are incomplete without each other.” The Prize is sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), a Canadian charitable non-profit organization, with the support of the NGO “Publishers Forum” (Lviv, Ukraine).