Marsha Skrypuch
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (born 1954) is a Ukrainian Canadian children's writer who lives in Brantford, Ontario.
She received a BA in English and a Master of Library Science from Western Ontario University, and began writing fiction in 1992. After being rejected more than 100 times, her first book, "Silver Threads," was published in 1996.[1] Her tenth and eleventh books are coming out in 2008: Call Me Aram is the sequel to Aram's Choice, and Daughter of War is the sequel to Nobody's Child.
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[edit] Works
- Silver Threads - 1996
- The Best Gifts - 1998
- The Hunger - 1999
- Enough - 2000
- Hope's War - 2001
- Nobody's Child - 2003
- Aram's Choice - 2006
- Kobzar's Children: A Century of Untold Ukrainian Stories -2006
- Dear Canada: Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Spirit Lake, Quebec, 1914 - 2007
- Daughter of War - 2008
[edit] Awards and nominations
2008 Order of Princess Olha, the highest honour bestowed on citizens of foreign countries, by Victor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine, for her writing on the Holodomor. In particular, her book, Enough.
2008 Ontario Golden Oak Award nomination for Aram's Choice
2007 Ontario Silver Birch Award nomination for Aram's Choice
2007 Canadian Library Association Children's Book of the Year shortlist for Aram's Choice
2006 ResourceLinks "Best of the Best 2006" in Children's Book category for Aram's Choice
2006 CCBC's Our Choice for Aram's Choice
2006 BC Stellar Award nomination for Nobody's Child
2005 Ontario Red Maple Award nomination for Nobody's Child
2005 Alberta Rocky Mountain Book Award nomination for Nobody's Child
2004 ResourceLinks "Best of the Best 2004" in novel category for Nobody's Child
2004 CCBC's Our Choice Award for Nobody's Child
2004 Alberta Rocky Mountain Book Award nomination for Hope's War
2004 Saskatchewan Snow Willow nomination for Hope's War
2003, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award nomination for Hope's War
2002, Nominated for the W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize for her body of work and mentorship of other writers
2002, Selected to tour Manitoba for CCBC's BookWeek
2002, CCBC's Our Choice Award for Hope's War
2001, ResourceLinks "Best of the Best 2001" in picture book category for Enough
2001, CCBC's Our Choice Award for Enough
2000, CCBC's Our Choice Award for The Hunger
1996, Taras Shevchenko for Silver Threads
1996, OLA Best Bets for Silver Threads
1996, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award shortlist for Silver Threads
[edit] References
- ^ Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch profile, Canadian Review of Materials
