Vera Lysenko

Vera Lesik (1910-1975) was a Canadian writer on the loss of Ukrainian heritage.

Born in Winnipeg to Ukrainian Baptist parents, she graduated B.A.

[1] Written under the pseudonym Vera Lysenko, her Men in Sheepskin Coats; a Study In Assimilation (1947) was a controversial study of the gradual loss of the native Ukrainian heritage, a theme continued in her novel Yellow Boots (1954).

[2] There is a Vera Lysenko fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

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