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Lesia Ukrainka: A Lecture by Janice Kulyk Keefer, Part 1

There’s a statue of a woman in Toronto's High Park, shadowed by pine trees and surrounded by fences next to Dog Hill. You have perhaps heard that she was a Ukrainian writer. In this lecture, Janice Kulyk Keefer, herself a poet, novelist, critic and professor emerita from Guelph University, will help us understand who Lesia Ukrainka was, what she accomplished and the historical context. Ukrainka was among the accomplished Ukrainian writers and intelligentsia who struggled to preserve their language and culture. In this first part of the two-part presentation, Janice will explore Ukrainka's family background and summarize the complex history of Ukraine, which had a dominant impact on Ukrainka's life and work. Ukrainka was born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, but when she published her first poem at 13, her mother gave her the pen name, which means Lesia the Ukrainian woman. Born in 1871, she suffered most of her short 42-year life from tuberculosis of the bone, a crippling disease. Yet, She still managed a prodigious output of translations of European and ancient classics, essays, poetry, short stories and plays. Janice, who is of Ukrainian background, has written two novels on Ukrainian themes, as well as a family memoir. She was a professor of literature, with a focus on modernist writers. An author of poetry, criticism and fiction, Janice has written two novels with Ukrainian themes and a family memoir, Honey and Ashes. We have already donated $700 from our audience members who registered for the live Zoom presentation to the Friends of the Mennonite Centre in Ukraine (https://www.mennonitecentre.ca). Please consider a small contribution after watching Janice's lectures! backlanestudios.ca