Congratulations, Dr. Mateusz Świetlicki!

Hearty congratulations to Dr. Mateusz Świetlicki for winning the 2025 book award for best monograph from the International Research Society for Children’s Literature for his groundbreaking work: Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction. The Seeds of Memory. This is the first book to explore Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021.

Author: Marsha

I write historical fiction, mostly from the perspective of young people who are thrust in the midst of war.