Date: September 19\, 2007
Time: 12:00 AM
presented by Roch Carrier
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC: The Academies of Arts\, Humanities and Sc ienes of Canada) invited UBC to host one of six lectures in the 2007 Govern or General Lecture Series of the RSC which will be presented by Roch Carrie r.
"The inspiring adventures of a man bent over a blank sheet of paper"
Roch Carrier\, prolific Québecois novelist\, playwright\, essayist\, former Director of the Canada Council for the Arts\, and former National Librarian of Canada\, will give an inspiring talk on his adventur es and his writing - a lot about his life\, but a lot about his literary wo rk as well\, and the places and experiences to which it has led him\, becau se for Carrier\, writing has been the vehicle for learning about life and a bout what it means to be human.
“I want to tell the story of how writ ing has taken me around the world and let me read it like a great open book . In the end\, I am still trying to answer the same questions I asked in th e three books of my adolescence: Who are we? Where do we come from? And whe re are we going? ”
Roch Carrier will give his talk at UBC on Wednesda y September 19\, 2007. Program details are to be confirmed. The talk will likely be in the late afternoon or early evening. This would be a super op portunity for students who might be studying any of Carrier's works (whethe r it is one of his short stories\, novels\, plays\, or poems). Many will b e familiar with "The Hockey Sweater\," "Our Life with the Rocket\," and "La Guerre\, Yes Sir!"
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