TORONTO, October 28, 2025 — The Peterson Literary Fund at BCU Foundation will host its annual awards gala in Toronto on November 29, 2025, to recognize this year’s esteemed honourees. The fund launched its Translated Book Awards in 2021 and, in 2023, established the Journey for Truth Project to encourage the dissemination of information about crimes committed by Russia by supporting publications, documentary films, scholarly research, and international conferences.

TORONTO, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON, LONDON, KYIV. The Peterson Literary Fund at BCU Foundation has announced six books shortlisted for the 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for nonfiction. The biennial international prize recognizes the best nonfiction books, written in English or Ukrainian, that promote a better understanding of Ukraine-related topics relevant to a global audience. 

October 21, 2022

TORONTO – The Peterson Literary Fund at BCU Foundation is pleased to announce six books shortlisted for the 2022 Peterson Literary Prize. The Peterson Literary Prize is a biennial international book prize recognizing original works of nonfiction written in English or Ukrainian. The prize recognizes books that promote a better understanding of Ukraine or the Ukrainian people, and whose subject matter is relevant to the global Ukrainian community.

TORONTO – The Peterson Literary Fund is pleased to announce its inaugural group of distinguished, international Honorary Patrons from Canada, the US, and Ukraine.

TORONTO - It was the dream of the late Ukrainian-Canadian philanthropist, Stanley Peterson, to establish an international literary fund designed to promote a better understanding of the Ukrainian experience and to recognise exceptional written works that are of interest to the global Ukrainian community and a broad audience of readers.