TORONTO, Wednesday March 9, 2011 − Award-winning author Charles Foran will speak at York University Thursday about Mordecai Richler’s life and his views on Quebec separatists and nationalists.
Winner of the 2011 Charles Taylor prize for literary non-fiction for his biography of Richler, Foran had full and exclusive access to family letters and the private archives. His book, Mordecai: The Life & Times (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) not only details Mordecai’s life from Montreal, Paris, Ibiza, France, London and back to Montreal, but his love and devotion to Florence Mann, who he met on the eve of his wedding to another and was married to for more than 40 years.
A journalist and reviewer, Foran has published ten books, including The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast (Harper Perennial Canada, 1995), which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction.
He also co-wrote the TV documentary Mordecai Richler: The Last of the Wild Jews and wrote radio documentaries for the CBC Radio’s “Ideas”. His latest book, Maurice Richard, is newly published as part of Penguin Canada’s Extraordinary Canadians series.
The talk, which will be followed by a Question & Answer, is being offered by York’s Department of English, the McLuhan Initiative, Canadian Studies, Founders College and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
WHO: Author Charles Foran
WHAT: “The Loyal Opposition: Mordecai Richler and the Canadian Cultural Nationalism.”
WHEN: Thursday March 10, 2-4pm
WHERE: Founders Senior Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus
MAP: Building 50 on map of Keele campus, http://www.yorku.ca/yorkweb/maps/index.htm
More Info: To listen to an interview with Foran, please click here http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=16600
Note: TVO’s Big Ideas program will be filming for a future broadcast. Flash photography will not be allowed during the presentation.
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Media Contact:
Media who wish to cover the presentation should contact Janice Walls, Media Relations, York University, 416 736 2100 x22101 / wallsj@yorku.ca
