ArticlesDavid Bergen

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  Fiction

  Stories of revolution drew David Bergen to explore tumult of WWI-era Ukraine

  David Bergen’s brilliant new novel, Away from the Dead, is set in Ukraine during the turbulent years of 1899 to the early 1920s, encompassing both the First World War and the Ukrainian civil war.

  By Margaret Goldik     Issue 83, Fall/Winter 2023/24

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  Fiction

  Stories of doubt, faith, grace, and the grey areas in between

  Winnipeg-based David Bergen’s Here the Dark is a collection of short stories and a novella, breathtaking and stop-you-in-your-tracks good. The settings range from the Prairies, to Honduras, to Vietnam, but the themes are a bit more fixed – good and evil, doubt and faith, and the grey areas in between.

  By Margaret Goldik     Issue 76, Spring/Summer 2020