The importance and timeliness of this book lie in the opportunity to give a voice to the people who survived the Russian occupation. In the foreword, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk writes, “It often lacks resonance against the backdrop of statements by politicians who suggest handing over the occupied territories to the aggressor country and satisfying its imperial appetites. The voice of the survivors makes such appeals immoral.”
The first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful and moving first draft of history written by the award-winning Guardian journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and Shadow State, who forecast Putin’s dark adventurist ambitions.
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.
In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine.
Exiled Russian journalist, Mikhail Zygar, reveals his country's history of oppressing Ukraine. In his book, War and Punishment, Zygar blames Russia's colonialist mindset and state-controlled culture for the war. This important book dismantles the imperial narrative that Putin used to justify a brutal invasion.
During the most intense fighting for Bakhmut in the winter and in March 2023, the author spent days and nights with Ukrainian infantrymen and artillerymen, medics and chaplains, rescuers and children who remained in the city and its surroundings, where artillery shelling and street battles were a constant. It’s a story about the anti-aircraft gunner who has just shot down a Russian fighter jet, father and sons fighting side by side, and a member of Wagner who cherishes Nabokov.
Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for two consecutive years, in 2022 and 2023. Before covering the Russian war on Ukraine, he reported on most major conflicts of the past two decades, serving as the Journal’s bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan and as a correspondent in Iraq.
OUR ENEMIES WILL VANISH: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence
Yaroslav Trofimov – Author
Penguin Press — Publisher
Our Enemies Will Vanish is a revelatory eyewitness account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance, written by Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
Howard G. Buffett, international investor, philanthropist, author, and photographer, will receive the Peterson Literary Fund’s 2025 Journey for Truth Award. Mr. Buffett’s book, Courage of a Nation, documents three years of war and features remarkable photographs he captured during 17 trips to Ukraine.
Diane Francis interviews Yaroslav Trofimov and Mikhail Zygar on the prospects for an end of the war in Ukraine
DIANE FRANCIS Atlantic Council, Senior Fellow; The Kyiv Post, Contributor; The National Post, Editor-at-Large; Financial Post, Columnist; Substack News, Author
YAROSLAV TROFIMOV The Wall Street Journal, Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent Winner, 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for "Our Enemies Will Vanish" (Penguin Press)
MIKHAIL ZYGAR Exiled Russian journalist; TV Rain, Former Editor-in-Chief Finalist, 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for "War and Punishment" (Simon & Schuster) Video released on December 18, 2024
“Recognized for its archival value in providing historians with multigenerational testimonies of Ukrainian Canadian women whose personal stories were shaped by the tumultuous events of two world wars.”
Diane Francis's keynote address to the 2021 Peterson Translation Award Gala.
Oleh Kotsyuba's speech as the publisher (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University) of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street at the 2023 Peterson Translated Book Awards.
Oleh Kotsyuba's speech as the publisher (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University) of The Voices of Babyn Yar at the 2023 Peterson Translated Book Awards.
Chris Alexander’s speech to the 2022 Peterson Literary Awards Gala.
Anne Applebaum's speech to the 2023 Peterson Translation Awards Gala.
Ukrayna. Bir Tarihsel Atlas
(Ukraine. An Illustrated History)
Paul Robert Magocsi – Author
Maryna Kravets, Victor Ostapchuk, Murat Yaşar – Translators
VakifBank Kültür Yayinlari (Türkiye) – Publisher
“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.”
Translator Mark Andryczyk's acceptance speech at the 2023 Peterson Gala
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
History of Ukraine-Rus' Volume 2
Mykhailo Hrushevsky – Author
Ian Press – Translator
Tania Plawuszczak-Stech – Co-translator and Managing Editor
CIUS Press – Publisher
Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West
Author: Thomas M. Prymak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Country: Canada
Language: English
Єврейсько-Українські відносини. ХХ сторіччя. [Jewish-Ukrainian Relations. The Twentieth Century]
Author: Alik Gomelsky
Publisher: Український Пріоритет [Ukrainian Priority]
Country: Ukraine
Language: Ukrainian
Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War
: Autocracy-Orthodoxy-Nationality
Author: Taras Kuzio
Publisher: Taylor & Francis/Routledge
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
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.”
Лицарі голодного Ренесансу [Knights of the Hungry Renaissance]
Author: Dmytro Horbachov Publisher: Дух і Літера [Spirit and Letter Publishing House]
Country: Ukraine
Language: Ukrainian
One of Ukraine’s leading art historians examines the phenomenon of the “Ukrainian avant-garde” art movement, which the Western art world discovered relatively late, thanks to the 1973 exhibit in London known as “Tatlin’s Dream.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Світлий Шлях. Історія одного концтабору
[The Torture Camp on Paradise Street]
Author: Stanislav Aseyev
Publisher: Видавництво Старого Лева [The Old Lion Publishing House]
Country: Ukraine Language: Ukrainian
Abducted by Russian security forces in 2017, journalist Stanislav Aseyev survived the hell of imprisonment in a concentration camp operated by Russia’s military proxies in eastern Ukraine.
Детокс [Detox]
Editor-in-chief: Larysa Ivshyna
Publisher: День. Українська прес-група [The Day. Ukraine Press Group]
Country: Ukraine
Language: Ukrainian
This volume of articles, edited by the Kyiv-based Editor-in-Chief of Ukraine’s newspaper Den (The Day), strives to shatter the image of the Ukrainian people as chronic victims.
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute - Publisher
“In recognition of this personal memoir that not only testifies to the human rights violations committed by the Russian Federation but also exposes the truth behind the existence of unofficial prisons, illegal deprivation of liberty, and torture carried out by the occupier in the city of Donetsk.”
Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love
Volodymyr Rafeyenko – Author
Mark Andryczyk – Translator
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute - Publisher
“In recognition of this book’s contribution to important processes of change in the way writers approach language in contemporary Ukrainian literature,”
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute - Publisher
“In recognition of its masterful use of poetry to convey the unspeakable crimes committed at Babyn Yar, using a first-person perspective of Jewish voices to raise painful questions related to memory and responsibility.”
The late Stanley Peterson, a Ukrainian-Canadian philanthropist, whose life story embodied the harrowing experiences of many East European émigrés who escaped persecution and war, finding refuge and freedom in Canada.
“My dream is to create a Canadian literary fund with Ukrainian roots and a global reach.”
Stanley Peterson