Author Cynthia LeBrun will be speaking about the Holodomor, and its legacy, as viewed through the lens of her historical novel, Black Sunflowers. This novel is based on her extensive research and interviews with her mother-in-law, who was a survivor of the Holodomor and the Nazi invasion before she arrived in Alberta to begin a new life here in Canada.

Event Details

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Location: Railway Orientation Centre
Price: FREE. Please RSVP online in advance!

About Cynthia LeBrun

Cynthia won the 2022 International Peterson Literary Emerging Writers Grant for Black Sunflowers. A retired educator, Cynthia grew up in Kelowna, BC. She studied at Simon Fraser University. She taught in a northern one-room schoolhouse west of Fort St. John, as well as the isolated logging camp of Phillips Arm, and finally in Campbell River. She is an experienced public speaker and had been interviewed on CBC radio, television and has spoken in libraries, museums and classrooms across BC.

Cynthia now lives and writes in beautiful Prince George where she enjoys time watching the moose and deer in her backyard and being with her grandsons. Cynthia won the 2022 International Peterson Literary Emerging Writers Grant for Black Sunflowers. It is her first novel.