The Pushkin Question or: Shouldn't You Be Reading Shevchenko? An Evening with Myrna Kostash

"I read Alexander Pushkin before I read Taras Shevchenko. I read Norman Mailer before I read Joan Didion. I read Margaret Laurence before I read Maria Campbell. What is going on here?"  A writer wrestles with colonial malware in her mind and imagination. 

Join us for this free event with author and Athabasca University Writer in Residence, Myrna Kostash. Myrna Kostash is the award-winning author of the classic All of Baba’s Children, among many other books, including her most recent publication Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle. Kostash is a recipient of the Writer Guild of Alberta’s Golden Pen Award and the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen award for a Life of Writing.