SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021
7:00-8:00 PM Eastern Time
FREE Virtual Event / БЕЗКОШТОВНО
“There are so many wonderful Ukrainian pioneers, like my baba, who need to be celebrated for their grit and faith.” – Diana Stevan, Author
Have you ever thought of telling your ancestors’ stories? Join SVI in collaboration with Rozmova Book Club to meet Diana Stevan, award-winning author of Sunflowers Under Fire, and the newly released sequel Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, based on her grandmother’s life spanning wartime in Eastern Europe, to immigration to the Canadian West during the Depression and beyond. Hear Diana read an excerpt from Lilacs in the Dust Bowl and reveal how she delved deeply into her family background along with historical research to write these books. A question period will follow.
Order your copy of Lilacs in the Dust Bowl – ISBN# 978-1-896402-291 directly from your local bookshop or through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, or as an ebook from Amazon, Apple ibooks, Google Play, Kobo, and Nook.
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Чи Ви коли-небудь думали розповісти історії Bаших предків? Тоді приєднуйтеся до спільної програми Інституту св. Володимира і книжкового клубу “Розмова”, щоб зустрітися з Даяною Стівен (Diana Stevan), авторкою книжки -переможця “Sunflowers Under”, і щойно виданою книжкою- продовженням “Lilacs in the Dust Bowl”, написані на основі життя її бабусі. Послухайте уривки з книжки “Lilacs in the Dust Bowl” і дізнайтеся наскільки глибоко Даяна проникнула в походження своєї родини у поєднанні з історичними дослідженнями для написання обох книжок. Подія - англомовна.
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Diana Stevan
Diana often jokes about her checkered resume, referring to herself as a Jill of all trades. Besides working as a clinical social worker, she’s been a teacher, school psychologist, administrator for EFAP firms, model, actor, and freelance writer-broadcaster for a CBC television sports show.
She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the only child of immigrants from Ukraine. With both parents working around the clock, she was cared for by her baba, who only spoke Ukrainian. In her teens, she picked up a love of poetry from her father, who recited poems as he walked about the house.
She had a poem published in the UK journal Dreamcatcher and a short story in the anthology, Escape, Peregrin Publishing in 2012. Her debut novel, A Cry From The Deep, a romantic mystery and adventure was published in 2014. She followed that up with The Blue Nightgown, a novelette in 2015. And in 2016, she published her second novel, The Rubber Fence, women’s fiction, inspired by her work on a psychiatric ward in 1972.
Her third novel, Sunflowers Under Fire, set in Ukraine during the Great War and the wars that followed, was published in 2019. It was a finalist in the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards for fiction and a semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards, literary fiction category. Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, published in 2021, is the continuation of Lukia Mazurets’ story in Canada.
Diana lives with her husband Robert in West Vancouver and Campbell River, British Columbia. When she isn’t writing, she gardens, goes for walks in the forest, and reads. But most of all, she loves spending time with friends and family. For Diana’s full biography, visit https://www.dianastevan.com/about-diana-stevan/