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October 20–30, 2010

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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 is the author of A Blade of Grass, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and translated into 10 languages, and a biography of Emily Carr. His long association with the IFOA includes a position on the Board of Directors.
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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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