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edition:Paperback
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category: Drama
published: Feb 2009
ISBN:9780887548598
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

My Chernobyl

by Aaron Bushkowsky

tagged: canadian
Description

While there, he meets his long-lost cousin, a beautiful, young Russian woman, who sets her sights on her wealthy relative as a ticket out of the radiation-blasted country. My Chernobyl is a quirky romance set in the existential old country, where cultures and ideals clash with touching and hilarious results..

About the Author
Aaron Bushkowsky is an author, poet, playwright, and screenwriter. His first novel, Curtains for Roy, was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and his first collection of poetry, ed and mabel go to the moon, was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Bushkowsky lives in Vancouver, where he teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Langara College, Studio 58, Kwantlen University, and at the Vancouver Film School. His plays have been professionally produced more than 30 times, and he has won the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Playwriting twice.
Contributor Notes

Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver-based playwright with publications and productions across several genres, including film, theatre, prose, poetry, and non-fiction. His first collection of short fiction, The Vanishing Man, was published by Cormorant Books in 2005, and his two collections of poetry, ed and mabel go to the moon and Mars is for Poems, are available through Oolichan Books. Aaron's plays, Strangers Among Us and The Waterhead and Other Plays have been published by Playwrights Canada Press. His plays have been nominated for Jessie Richardson Awards several times, winning twice. He teaches film and playwriting at several institutions, including Langara College, Studio 58, Kwantlen University, and Vancouver Film School. He also helps run Solo Collective Theatre, a professional mid-sized theatre in Vancouver that produces original plays by Western Canadian playwrights. Aaron is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Awards
  • Winner, Victoria Critics Spotlight Award- Best New Play
  • Winner, Victoria Critics Spotlight Award- Best Professional Production

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