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Making Bombs For Hitler: Presentation and Signing on October 11 in Ottawa
An interview with Marsha — IBBY Canada CANSCAIP spotlight
CANSCAIP Spotlight: Marsha Skrypuch
Interviewed by CANSCAIP Liaison Officer Debbie Spring
Introduction
Marsha Skrypuch is a member of both CANSCAIP and IBBY Canada. She is a Brantford, Ontario author Continue reading “An interview with Marsha — IBBY Canada CANSCAIP spotlight”
Open Book interview with Marsha Skrypuch
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the award-winning author of historical fiction, nonfiction and picture books for children and young adults. Pajama Press has just released her new book, One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way, which continues the true story of Tuyet, Continue reading “Open Book interview with Marsha Skrypuch”
WWI internment in Canada and my Ukrainian grandfather
I was recently interviewed by the wonderful Bill Graveland, National Correspondent with the Canadian Press. He wrote this story, and it has been published in newspapers across the country:
Open Book interview with Marsha Skrypuch about the research and writing of One Step At A Time
I recently did an interview about how I wrote One Step At A Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds her Way. Thank you, Erin Knight, for the GREAT questions.
Here’s the interview.
Come to my launch!
Iryna Korpan at Toronto Film Festivals!
Iryna Korpan’s exceptional documentary film, She Paid The Ultimate Price” was picked by two Toronto Film Festivals for public screening:
Sept.7 at 6pm at Toronto Underground Cinema on 186 Spadina Ave. .
Also you can join me on Sept.23 at 5:30 pm at Rainbow Cinema on
80 Front St.East .
Additional information about festivals can be found on http://www.film-fest.ca and http://www.commfest.com.
Here’s a preview. The documentary is about her own Ukrainian grandmother who was executed for hiding Jews during WWII:
Black Ribbon Day: August 23
August 23 is Black Ribbon Day — to commemorate the August 23, 1939 pact between Hitler and Stalin to divide up Eastern Europe. Their collaboration continued for the first two years of WWII. These two tyrants caused the deaths of 14 million Eastern European civilians (Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, the people of the Baltics). Armed forces casualties added many more millions to the death toll.
A dissertation using my novel, The Hunger!
It is a surreal experience, reading an academic’s take on a novel one has written. This popped up in my google alert today:
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/9829/1/aulanowicz.pdf
Scroll to page 58. It’s a fascinating dissection. My favourite line? The Hunger is not necessarily a good novel but it’s an important one.