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| Name | Myrna Kostash |
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| Location | Edmonton |
| Biography | Life-long Edmontonian, Myrna Kostash is a fulltime writer, author of the classic All of Babas Children, and of the award-winning Bloodlines: A Journey Into Eastern Europe, The Frog lake Reader and Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium. Besides writing for diverse magazines, Kostash has written radio drama and television documentary. Her essays, articles, and creative nonfiction have been widely anthologized. She has been a frequent lecturer at home and abroad and instructor of creative writing as well as writer-in-residence in Canada and the US. She is a recipient of the WGAs Golden Pen Award and the Writers Trust Matt Cohen award for a Life of Writing. |
| Publications | Selected: All of Baba's Children, Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe, The Doomed Bridegroom, Reading the River: A Traveller's Companion to the North Saskatchewan River, The Frog Lake Reader, Prodigal Daughter: A Journey into Byzantium. Essays in (selected): The Thining Heart: Best Canadian Essays, Why Are You Telling Me This: Eleven Acts of Intimate Journalism, Vintage Book of Canadian Memoir, Fresh Tracks: Writing From Western Landscape, AWOL:Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds, Desire: Women Write About Wanting, Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Creative Nonfiction, eds. Luanne Armstrong & Zoe Landale, Wolsack and Wynn, and Literary Nonfiction in Saskatchewan, in The Literary History of Saskatchewan. |
| Awards | Alberta Achievement Award ,City of Edmontons Citation Award, Salute to Excellence, the Writers Guild of Alberta Golden Pen Award for lifetime achievement. She is an inductee to the City of Edmontons Hall of Fame. City of Edmonton book prize, short-listed for the Runcimann Award (U.K.) and theKobzar Literary Award.She received the Writers Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award for a Writing Life and is a recipient of the Queens Diamond Jubilee medal. |
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