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    AUTHOR SKRYPUCH RESEARCHES LATEST BOOK IN KAP
    Kevin Anderson

    Kapuskasing Northern Times
    http://www.kapuskasingtimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2690980
    July 29 2010

    Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch was in Kapuskasing recently,
    researching her latest project - a young-adult book about the
    internment of Turks in the camps located in Kapuskasing during the
    first World War.

    "They were rounded up on trumped-up charges revolving around some
    theory they were conspiring to blow up the post office in Brantford,"
    she said. "They were the first detainees at the camps here when they
    arrived in December of 1914."

    Asked if her voyage to the Model Town had bore any fruit, Ms. Skrypuch
    said the discovery of various artifacts, documents and photographs
    from the era added some much needed pieces to the historical puzzle.

    "It's amazing how abundantly available information about that time and
    subject matter is," she commented. "The nice thing is, once you start
    digging into this information everything just starts to reveal itself."

    Mislabelled as "slow" in school Ms. Skrypuch didn't learn how to read
    until she was in Gr. 4 for the second time. In defiance of her label,
    when she finally did learn to read, she chose the thickest book in the
    children's section of the Brantford Public Library -- Oliver Twist, by
    Charles Dickens. Reading that novel was a turning point in her life:
    not only did she become a voracious reader, but she set herself the
    goal of becoming a writer one day.

    She received an Honours BA in English from the University of Western
    Ontario. After several years as an industrial sales rep, a career
    change was in order. Marsha went back to university to take her Master
    of Library Science degree. It was while at library school that Marsha
    developed her passion for children's literature.

    Marsha worked for Agriculture Canada as a librarian while she was
    taking her degree and upon graduation was given the position of
    Librarian, Delhi Research Station. She resigned upon the birth of
    her child.

    Marsha was a full-time Mom for a year. Then she started writing book
    reviews and freelance articles.

    Marsha turned her hand to fiction in 1992, receiving well over 100
    rejection slips in the process. In 1994, her picture book, Silver
    Threads, was accepted for publication. It was published in 1996.

    Marsha has a passion for writing about the bits of history that have
    been shoved under the carpet. As of 2009, she has written five novels
    set during the Armenian genocide -- more than any other author in the
    English speaking world. She also wrote Enough, the first commercially
    published children's book set during the Holodomor (Stalin-induced
    famine in Ukraine).

    Enough had been turned down by many publishers who considered the
    topic too "controversial" for children, but it was published in 2000 by
    Fitzhenry & Whiteside and is still popular nine years later. When it
    came out, Marsha received hate mail and death threats. In May 2008,
    President Victor Yuschchenko of Ukraine bestowed upon Marsha the
    Order of Princess Olha for her championing of the Holodomor.

    That same week, MP James Bezan's private member's bill C-459 was
    unanimously passed. This Bill establishes a Ukrainian Famine and
    Genocide Memorial Day and recognizes the Holodomor as an act of
    genocide.

    This forthcoming novel is expected to be published in spring of 2011
    and will be available at the Ron Morel Museum in Kapuskasing.




    From: A. Papazian
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