SK Author of Historical Fiction Coming to Write Out Loud
Anne Lazurko wears many hats in literary circles – author, freelance writer, teacher, editor, mentor, and award-winning agricultural journalist. Her first novel, Dollybird, (Coteau/ Shadowpaw Press reprise 2023) won the Willa Award for historical fiction, and her current novel, What is Written on the Tongue, (ECW Press, 2022) was shortlisted for the $20,000 Glengarry Book Award in 2022.
Using extensive research and aspects of her father’s World War II experience, Anne set her latest novel in 1945 Indonesia. It’s a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization. It contains grit and violence but moments of grace as well. Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and The Illegal wrote, “Teeming with life and drama, What is Written on the Tongue is an ambitious, riveting story of war, immorality, love, and family. Spanning the Netherlands, Germany, and Indonesia during and after WWII, Anne Lazurko’s novel serves as a grim reminder that the oppressed sometimes become oppressors.”
Anne writes from her farm near Weyburn.
Write Out Loud welcomes Anne Lazurko to the Swift Current Lyric Theatre Stage at 7:00 p.m., March 8, 2023. As a prelude to Ms. Lazurko’s presentation, local musician, Stew Tasche, will entertain. Sponsorship for this evening is generously provided by Swift Current’s Heinricks Galey Law Office.
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