Andy Szpuk

Writer based in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Awards:

2014 – Runner Up in Nottingham Festival of Words Competition

My Literary Journey:

SLIDING ON THE SNOW STONE is based on the true story of my father, from his childhood in Ukraine, the ravages of the Soviet induced famine (1932-33), Soviet repression in the years leading up to World War Two, and events during and after the war.

Writing the book was a profound experience and afterwards I found myself writing a good deal of poetry to find closure. Many of my poems found their way into anthologies and poetry magazines.

In between writing and performing poetry, I wrote FATE AND CIRCUMSTANCE, based on my mother’s true story, a tale of her family’s forced eviction from their Ukrainian Lemko home in the Carpathian Mountains, and of a family member’s heroic act during the brutality of the Nazi Holocaust.

I have more novels in the pipeline and also work with people on writing family histories.