Roch Carrier(1937 - Living or Unknown) - author
Roch Carrier (born May 13, 1937) is a celebrated French-Canadian novelist and author of "contes" (a very brief form of the short story).
He was born in Sainte-Justine-de-Dorchester, Quebec and studied at the Universitй St-Louis (in the Canadian province of New Brunswick), the Universitй de Montrйal (in Quebec), and at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France, where he received a doctorate in literature.
From 1994 to 1997, he served as head of the Canada Council. In 1998, he ran as an electoral candidate for the Quebec Liberal Party under Jean Charest, but was not elected.
In 1999, Carrier was named Canada's National Librarian.
Also involved in theatre (having served as dramaturge at the Thйвtre du Nouveau-Monde), Carrier has adapted La guerre, yes sir! and Floralie, oщ es-tu? for the stage. La guerre, yes sir! was produced as a play in 1970. Floralie, oщ es-tu? was performed by Thйвtre du Nouveau-Monde in 1974.
An excerpt from "The Hockey Sweater," one of Carrier's most famous contes, is reprinted on the back of the Canadian $5 bill. The story, about a young boy who orders a Montreal Canadiens sweater from the Eaton's catalogue, but receives a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey instead, is considered by many to be a literary allegory for the linguistic and cultural tensions between English and French Canadians, and is thus considered one of the most important works of Canadian literature ever written, essential reading for anybody who seeks to understand what being Canadian means.
Bibliography
La guerre, yes sir! (1968)
Floralie, oщ es-tu? (Floralie, Where Are You?) (1969)
Il est par lа, le soleil (Is it the Sun, Philibert?) (1970)
Jardin des dйlices (The Garden of Delights) (1975)
Il n'y a pas de pays sans grand-pиre (No Country without Grandfathers) (1977)
Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune (The Hockey Sweater and other stories) (1979)
Dame qui avait des chaоnes aux chevilles (Lady with Chains) (1981)
Priиres d'un enfant trиs trиs sage (Prayers of a Very Wise Child) (1991)
Priиres d'un adolescent trиs trиs sage (Prayers of a Young Man) (1998)
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