{"id":3811,"date":"2013-04-28T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2018-12-09T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T14:46:23","slug":"edmonton-reading-april-29-500-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Reading: April 29, 5:00 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EdmontonCowboy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

OMNIBUS 2012-3 CANADIAN AUTHORS SERIES EVENT, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 5 P.M.<\/strong><\/p>\n

GERALD HILL. CASSIE STOCKS. JULIJA \u0160UKYS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPPER CRUST CAFE, SOUTH EDMONTON. 10909-86 AVE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerald Hill<\/strong> is the author of Fourteen Tractors<\/i> (NeWest Press, 2009),\u2028 for which he won the 2009 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry. He has \u2028published four other collections of poetry: My Human Comedy<\/i> (Coteau\u2028Books, 2008), Getting To Know You<\/i> (Spotted Cow Press, 2003), The Man<\/i>\u2028From Saskatchewan<\/i> (Coteau Press, 2001), and Heartwood<\/i> (Thistledown\u2028Press, 1985). He lives in Regina, where he teaches English and \u2028Creative Writing at Luther College at the University of Regina.<\/p>\n

MacEwan University grad Cassie Stocks <\/strong>has just been awarded the 2013 \u2028Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for her first novel Dance, Gladys,<\/i>\u2028\u00a0Dance<\/i>. She lives in Eston, Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

Narrative nonfiction writer and biographer Julija \u0160ukys<\/strong> is the author\u2028 of Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona \u0160imait\u0117<\/i> (University of \u2028Nebraska Press, 2012). \u0160ukys follows the letters and journals of\u2028 \u0160imait\u0117 (1894\u20131970), a Lithuanian librarian who for several years \u2028aided Jews in the Vilnius ghetto during German occupation. Eventually,\u2028her activities were detected by the Gestapo and \u0160imait\u0117 was sent to \u2028Dachau. Journeying through thousands of letters, scores of diaries, \u2028articles, and press clippings, \u0160ukys negotiates with the ghost of\u2028 \u0160imait\u0117, beckoning back to life this quiet and worldly heroine\u2014a giant \u2028of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem\u2019s honoured \u201cRighteous Among the\u2028Nations\u201d). The result is at once a mediated self-portrait and a \u2028measured perspective on a remarkable life. It reveals the meaning of life-writing, how women write their lives publicly and privately, and\u2028 how their words attach them\u2014and us\u2014to life. \u0160ukys is also the author \u2028of Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout<\/i> (University of \u2028Nebraska Press, 2007). She lives in Montreal.<\/p>\n

[Photo:\u00a0sahlgoode<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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