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Awarded by BBC News Ukrainian to the best book of prose fiction in Ukrainian; this is the main prose category, not the children's or essay awards. The prize year names the December ceremony and covers books published in roughly the preceding twelve months.
BBC News Ukrainian, then the BBC Ukrainian Service, launched the prize in 2005; the first award, for 2005, was presented in February 2006, and later awards at a ceremony in Kyiv each December. Publishers submit books, a jury of critics, writers and BBC journalists draws up a long list and then a shortlist of up to five, and the winning author receives the equivalent of 1,000 pounds. Until 2017 only books written in Ukrainian were eligible; since then Ukrainian translations of books by authors from Ukraine's other language communities may also compete. A children's category was added in 2012 and an essay category in 2018. In 2014 Serhiy Zhadan's Voroshylovhrad was named Book of the Decade.
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BBC Ukrainian Book 2018 · Shortlist
Серые пчелы · Serye pchely
Andrey Kurkov · 57 when first published
Novel · 298 pages · War
AI-generated summary:Only two people remain in a village in the grey zone of the Donbas war: the beekeeper Serhii Serhiiovych and his old classmate and opposite, Pashka. When spring comes, Serhiiovych sets out to take his six hives somewhere free of shooting.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2017 · Shortlist
Інтернат · Internat
Serhiy Zhadan · 43 when first published
Novel · 336 pages · War
AI-generated summary:Donbas, January 2015. Pasha, a schoolteacher who has tried to stay out of the war, watches the front line creep towards his home, and is forced to cross it and then find his way back.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2015 · Shortlist
Карбід · Karbid
Andriy Lyubka · 28 when first published
Novel · 250 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:In the invented town of Vedmediv on the Transcarpathian border, history teacher Tys hatches a plan to dig a tunnel to Hungary so that every Ukrainian can reach Europe, and recruits the local smugglers to help.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2014 · Shortlist
Месопотамія · Mesopotamiia
Serhiy Zhadan · 40 when first published
Short stories · 328 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Nine stories and thirty poems about the same circle of people in a city between two rivers, Babylonian tales of love and death, street fights and daily passions, betrayals, escapes and returns.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2012 · Shortlist
Біографія випадкового чуда · Biohrafiia vypadkovoho chuda
Tanja Maljartschuk · 29 when first published
Novel · 246 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Lena, a girl from a small Ukrainian town who has looked for a miracle since kindergarten, grows up to defend stray dogs and disabled people, while wondering who the woman in a headscarf is who drops from the sky to save the helpless.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2010 · Shortlist
Музей покинутих секретів · Muzei pokynutykh sekretiv
Oksana Zabuzhko · 49 when first published
Novel · 727 pages · Historical, Family, War
AI-generated summary:Spanning three generations from the autumn of 1943 to the spring of 2004, a novel links the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Stalin's era, the dissidents of the 1960s and the 1990s through family secrets buried in the ground.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2008 · Shortlist
Москалиця · Moskalytsia
Maria Matios · 49 when first published
Novella · 108 pages
AI-generated summary:A woman in mortal danger finds no fear strong enough to break her will to resist, and keeps her secret all her life as she keeps her honour.
BBC Ukrainian Book 2007 · Shortlist
Майже ніколи не навпаки · Maizhe nikoly ne navpaky
Maria Matios · 48 when first published
Novel · 154 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:A family saga in three linked novellas follows the Hutsul families Chev'iuk, Keivan and Varvarchuk from Austria-Hungary and the First World War to the mid-twentieth century, beginning with a man who marries for money instead of love.