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2023 Grand Prix for Excellence in Translation

Ukrayna: Bir Tarihsel Atlas

Paul Robert Magocsi – Author
Maryna Kravets, Victor Ostapchuk, Murat Yaşar – Translators

VakifBank Kültür Yayinlari (Türkiye) – Publisher

Paul Robert Magocsi / author

“The Grand Prix is given in recognition of this book’s importance in making Robert Magocsi’s comprehensive history of Ukraine accessible to a Turkish-speaking audience, thanks to its well-crafted translation.”

Ukraine is Europe’s second-largest country. This lavishly illustrated volume provides a concise and easy-to-read historical survey of Ukraine from earliest times to the present. Each of the book’s forty-six chapters is framed by a historical map, which graphically depicts the key elements of the chronological period or theme being discussed. In addition, the entire text is accompanied by sixteen statistical tables and over 300 historic photographs, line drawings, portraits, and reproductions of books and art works, which bring the rich past of Ukraine to life. 

This book emphasizes the multicultural nature of Ukraine throughout its history. While ethnic Ukrainians figure prominently, author Paul Robert Magocsi, (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto) also deals with the many other peoples who live or who have lived within the borders of present-day Ukraine: Poles, Russians, Jews, Crimean Tartars, Germans (including Mennonites), and Greeks, among others. 

Ukraine: An Illustrated History is not only an indispensable resource for students and specialists in the European area and Slavic studies, it offers information for the media, businesspersons, government officials, as well as general readers interested in having easy access to fact-based information about historic political, economic, and cultural developments in Ukraine. 

And now it is available to a Turkish audience of readers.

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2022 Peterson Literary Prize Winner

Author: Taras Kuzio
Publisher: Taylor & Francis/Routledge
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English 

This timely and relevant book places imperial nationalism and chauvinism at the centre of Putin’s Russia and identifies them as the driving pretext for the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The book highlights a Tsarist White Russian imperial denial of the existence of a distinct Ukrainian nation, as reflected in Putin’s obsession with Ukraine. The author traces the intensification of Russian chauvinism towards Ukraine and Ukrainians through three critical junctures in Putin’s political career. The book investigates nationalism within the Russian Orthodox Church and pinpoints the dangerous rise of the red-white-brown (Soviet-Tsarist-fascist) nationalist coalition under Vladimir Putin.

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2021 Translated Book Award

Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

Translated from the original Ukrainian into English

Oksana Kis – Author
Lidia Wolanskyj – Translator
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications – Publisher

“In recognition of this book’s contribution to women’s history and the field of Gulag studies, presented through a rarely explored aspect of Soviet history — the story of Ukrainian female prisoners incarcerated in Stalin’s camps.”

This groundbreaking book showcases an overlooked chapter in the history of Stalin’s notorious Gulag —the untold story of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women arrested, sentenced, and imprisoned in the vast network of Soviet labour camps. Relying on a rich collection of over 150 memoirs, the book tackles every aspect of repression in the Gulag system and captures the experiences, resistance, and survival of these politically active women and the many ways they sought to overcome the most brutal and dehumanization conditions.

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2021 Translated Book Award

Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History

Translated from the original Ukrainian into English

Yuri Kostenko – Author
Svitlana Krasynsky, Lidia Wolanskyj, Olena Jennings – Translators
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications – Publisher

“In recognition of its historical documentary value and present-day relevance, providing insight into Ukraine’s post-Soviet disarmament process, debunking myths promoted by Russia, and exposing critical strategic errors made by the West.”

In December 1994, Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, having received assurances that its sovereignty would be respected and secured by Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Written by former Ukrainian presidential candidate, former Environment Minister, parliamentarian, and pro-democracy activist Yuri Kostenko, and based on original and heretofore unavailable documents, the book offers an insider’s view of the domestic and foreign actors that played key roles during Ukraine’s disarmament process. In the aftermath of Russia’s forced annexation of Crimea, invasion of eastern Ukraine, and repeated attempts to destabilize Europe by threatening new military incursions into Ukraine, this book provides relevant insight into mistakes made during the denuclearization process and the strategic importance of Ukraine as a key player in global security.

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2021 Translated Book Award

Український Майдан, російська війна. Хроніка та аналіз Революції Гідності
(Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War. A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity)

Translated from the original English into Ukrainian

Mychailo Wynnyckyj – Author
Roman Klochko – Translator
Видавництво Старого Лева (Old Lion) – Publisher

“In recognition of this book’s contribution to a better understanding of one of Ukraine’s most consequential modern social movements — the Revolution of Dignity.”

In this book, the Canadian-born scholar Mychailo Wynnyckyj interprets the fate of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity as a turning point, not only in the modern history of Ukraine, but, in fact, in the history of Western civilization. It is a very positive development that the book’s unique analysis, once only available to English readers, is now accessible to a Ukrainian audience.

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2021 Translated Book Award

The Gordian Knot: The Second Polish-Ukrainian War. 1942-1947

Translated from the original Ukrainian into English

Volodymyr Viatrovych – Author
Ksenia Maryniak – Translator
Published by Horner Press – Publisher

“In recognition of this book’s advancement of new research and analysis, from a Ukrainian viewpoint, of a historically sensitive period in Ukrainian-Polish relations, which will no doubt help generate future academic discussions on this topic.”

Translated from the second edition of the original work published in 2012 by the University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy Publishing House, the 2020 translation attempts to provide a broader historical context to a wider Polish-Ukrainian civil war that was not rooted in one event, namely 1943 Volhynia, but rather began in 1942 and ended in 1947.

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2021 Translated Book Award

Blood Formula

Translated from the original Ukrainian into English

Illiya Titko – Author
Jeffrey Stephaniuk – Translator
Benchmark Press – Publisher

“In recognition of this book’s value as the English-language personal memoir of a volunteer recruit deployed to the frontlines of the current Russian-Ukrainian war.”

The story of Senior Lieutenant Illya Titko’s service in one of Ukraine’s motorized infantry brigades, conveys what it’s like to go to war, and how to find the strength to live with the emotions and memories that haunt you. The book’s value lies in its mission to help all of us to understand the experiences of the people, the country, and the individuals who, like Illya Titko, followed the path of defending their country.

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2021 Grand Prix for Excellence in Translation

History of Ukraine-Rus’ Volume 2

Mykhailo Hrushevsky – Author
Ian Press – Translator
Tania Plawuszczak-Stech – Co-translator and Managing Editor
CIUS Press – Publisher

“The Grand Prix was awarded not only as an acknowledgement of the volume’s excellence in translation, but also in recognition of its exceptional importance in making Hrushevsky’s magnum opus accessible to a global audience.”

Hrushevsky’s History of Ukraine-Rus’ represented a seismic break from the Russocentric paradigm that had previously driven historiography. Russian imperial domination of political history had sought to entrench a narrative advocating a direct continuity between Rus’ and the Suzdalia-Muscovy-Russian Empire — an interpretation of medieval history that, for decades, Western scholarship had fully embraced. The content of Hrushevsky’s volume 2—especially its three chapters of political history covering the period from 1015 to 1252—was central to contesting the imperial legend that Russia was the direct political successor of the Kyivan-Rus’ state — a myth that Russia’s present-day political leadership continues to perpetuate. The fact that this monumental history is now available in English, guarantees that this historically significant work will forever be accessible to a worldwide scholarly audience.

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