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Maurice Mierau wins 2016 Kobzar prize for ‘Detachment: An Adoption Memoir’


TORONTO — Winnipeg writer and editor Maurice Mierau is the winner of the 2016 Kobzar Literary Award for his book “Detachment: An Adoption Memoir.”
Mierau received $20,000 and the book’s publisher, Calgary’s Freehand Books, received $5,000 for the award, which was presented at a gala dinner in Toronto on Wednesday night.
The prize is awarded every two years by the Shevchenko Foundation to recognize a Canadian writer who most effectively presents a Ukrainian Canadian theme through poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction or young people’s literature.
“Detachment: An Adoption Memoir” recounts Mierau and his wife’s adoption of two young brothers from Ukraine in 2005.
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Source: National Newswatch

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