Palahna Kosovan 1892 – 1979
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From: Ghosts in a Photograph
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Chapter Six is about Palahna Kosovan, the author’s maternal grandmother or “Baba.” Describing Baba’s strength, self reliance through gardening and livestock, membership in the Ukrainian Labour-Farmer Temple Association (ULFTA), life in Edmonton, her awareness and feeling of her own class and the class stratification of life in Edmonton, her ardent sympathies towards the Soviet Union, maintained connection and communication with her family in Soviet Ukraine.
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Myrna Kostash
Born and raised in Edmonton, Myrna Kostash is the author of the classic All of Baba’s Children, No Kidding: Inside the World of Teenage Girls, winner of the Alberta Culture and Writers’ Guild of Alberta prize for Best Non-Fiction, and Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium, which received the 2010 City of Edmonton Book Prize, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Wilfred Eggleston Award for Best Nonfiction, and was shortlisted for the 2011 Runcimann Award (UK). Her other titles include The Doomed Bridegroom: A Memoir, Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe, and her edited collections Reading the River: A Traveller’s Companion to the North Saskatchewan River, The Frog Lake Reader, and The Seven Oaks Reader. Kostash, who served as Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada, has published widely in numerous magazines and lectured across Canada and Europe. In 2010, she was awarded the Writers Trust Matt Cohen Award for a Life of Writing.