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October 21 – 31, 2009

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Extraordinary Canadians

Thursday, October 30, 8:00pm
2008-10-30 20:00
2008-10-30 21:00
Selected as a Globe and Mail Critics Pick
Andrew Cohen (Lester B. Pearson), Lewis DeSoto (Emily Carr), and Rudy Wiebe (Big Bear) discuss their biographies of the men and women who made us with Penguin's Extraordinary Canadians series editor John Ralston Saul.

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Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.
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Lewis DeSoto

Lewis DeSoto was born in South Africa, and studied at what is now the Emily Carr College of Art. His paintings have been widely exhibited across Canada, and his novel A Blade of Grass was nominated for numerous prestigious awards including the Man Booker Prize. His most recent book is a biography of Emily Carr.
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John Ralston Saul

Declared a “prophet” by TIME magazine, John Ralston Saul is included in the prestigious Utne Reader’s list of the world’s 100 leading thinkers and visionaries.
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Rudy Wiebe

Rudy Wiebe is the award-winning author of 12 books, including Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, winner of the 2007 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary non-fiction, and The Temptations of Big Bear.
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