To launch her latest publication, Writing Ukraine, from Athabasca University Press, Myrna was in conversation with Prof. Jeffrey Stepinsky at Grant MacEwan University
Thursday, December 5th, 2024 at 6:00 PM
An evening of deep reflection that offers a rare opportunity to hear from the award-winning author whose work delves into the intersection of history, Canadian identity, and Ukrainian heritage.
Book Launch: Myrna Kostash, Ghosts in a Photograph
Thursday, November 14th, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Join us in person at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada as we proudly host the Saskatoon book launch of Ghosts in a Photograph by acclaimed nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash. This mesmerizing book explores the journey of Kostash's grandparents from Galicia, now Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century.
The book's genius is in how it weaves Ukrainian and Canadian political history, contextualizing the stories of two familes (one homesteaders, one working-class Edmontonian) with the historic struggles for Ukrainian independence and the genocidal "clearing of the plains" in Canada.
With Kostash in attendance to read from and speak about her book, this will be an extraordinary literary event.
Translating All of Baba's Children
First published in 1977, Myrna Kostash's legendary book All of Baba’s Children is approaching its 50th anniversary.
All of Baba’s Children investigates the darker corners of Canadian identity, celebrates a people's “great adventure” and has become part of the literary heritage of the West. Myrna's probing of the experiences of three generations of Ukrainians in Canada rapidly became a bestseller.
Today, the book continues to attract its new readers, and much interest in this seminal work is also growing in Ukraine. What does All of Baba's Children mean to today's Ukrainian community in Canada? How can we 'translate' the book for new audiences at home and internationally?
Join Myrna Kostash, author of All of Baba’s Children, in conversation with Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Director Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, and Olha Poliukhovych, literary critic, scholar, and VP of Research and Academic Affairs at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, as they discuss the writing of All of Baba’s Children, its impact across the years, the broader community understanding of Ukrainian Canadians, and the revived interest in this work in Ukraine.
CUCS Reading Club
"We found the book to be extremely intellectually stimulating, innovative for its time, and relevant today."
Yulia Ivaniuk Squires, Coordinator, Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies University of Manitoba
Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies
We are pleased to invite you to a lecture at the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies featuring Myrna Kostash, the acclaimed Kobzar award-winning nonfiction writer.
At the 2016 Word on the Street in Saskatoon, Myrna presented her Seven Oaks Reader in the form of a script, "Voices from Seven Oaks," read by Saskatoon young actors.
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A Reading from All Baba's Children
University of Alberta
January 27, 1978
It's official. You can now buy a house on Kostash Drive. Myrna went to have a look at the road sign in what is still a new suburb, Keswick, in Edmonton's south-west.
Reading the River
Thanks to the initiative of University of Alberta scholars, Jessica Zychowicz and Vita Yakovleva, Myrna was included in events during the University's International Week 2020.
Speakers' Series of the St John's Cathedral branch
As part of the Speakers' Series of the St John's Cathedral branch of the Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, Myrna spoke in Edmonton at St John's Cultural Centre about Ukrainian settler-Indigenous relations.
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