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NEWS UPDATE
2019 KIRKUS REVIEW AWARD
My Sister’s Mother by Donna Urbikas has been awarded 2019 Best Indi Biography and Memoir by Kirkus Reviews
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Excellent review by University of Wisconsin History Professor
“…chapters transcend chronological time, flowing instead between Janina’s and Mira’s experiences in exile and the author’s own self-reflections on motherhood, her sometimes tumultuous upbringing, and what it meant to grow up as a Polish American.”
“…highly detailed, emotionally compelling, and hauntingly human”. . . it deserves, and is sure to enjoy, a wide readership…”
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My Mother’s Sister website and book trailer has been awarded First Place in the multimedia category by Polish journalists association in Poland (SDP, Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich) at the recent Festival for the Losses of Poles (Losy Polaków 2019) related to the World Wars.
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AWARDED BEST BOOK BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
My Sister’s Mother by Donna Urbikas will be featured in the December special print edition.
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AWARDED BEST BOOK
My Sister’s Mother by Donna Urbikas has been awarded Best Book by the American Association of School Librarians and by the
Public Library Reviewers.
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Polish American Historical Association’s Journal Review
(An academic journal focusing on Polish history and culture with reviews by distinguished scholars and historians.)
“Urbikas seeks to shed light on uknown Soviet atrocities… At its core, however, lies an ‘intertwining tale of a mother who saves her child’ and ‘a child who saves her mother.’ …Urbikas’ voice becomes the counterpoint to the voices of Janina and Mira… for an ambitious and dense narrative. …unabashed and, at times, self-disclosures [which] amplify the impact on critical developmental milestones of the life cycle… Urbikas’ endurance in empathetic realization allows that ‘my mother’s ordeals did that of my children.”
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Donna Urbikas has been selected as a finalist with the Society of Midland Authors.
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Donna Urbikas, author of My Sister’s Mother has been selected as a finalist in the Chicago Writers Association,
Society of Midland Authors, Midwest Book Awards (as part of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association).
“My Sister’s Mother” by Donna Urbikas won third place, a bronze award in the category of Memoir/Biography.
Donna Urbikas is finalist for the 2016 Chicago Writers Association Book Awards in the category of Traditionally Published Non-Fiction
January 14, 2020 AT 6PM
Society of Midland Authors
Harold Washington Library
Donna Urbikas will be part of a 3-person panel presentation on writing memoirs.
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November 6, 2019
Donna Urbikas will be presenting “Poland in Chicago: Chicago in Poland” for the Culture and Diversity Group
TrueValue Hardware Headquarters
Chicago, IL (by invitation only)
April 27, 2019
Anniversary for launch of hardcover edition (2016)
April 13, 2019
Book Sales and Signing at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
University of Souther California
Los Angeles, CA
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April 6, 2019
Book Sales and Signing
Writers Institute Conference
Madison, WI
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