Short List Announced
The Union is please to announce the short list of nominees for the 29th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
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Lorne Shirinian
Lorne Shirinian’s new book, My Family, Surviving Genocide, Becoming Canadian, has just been published by Blue Heron Press. In the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923, more than one and a half million Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire were deported and murdered in the first modern genocide of the…
