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Roch Carrier

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Roch Carrier was born May 13, 1937 in Sainte-Justine, Quebec. He went to boarding school in neighbouring Saint-Georges de Beauce. He earned a B.A. in 1957 from Université Saint-Louis in Edmundston, New Brunswick, a Masters in 1964 from the Université de Montréal, and a Doctorat ès Lettres in näytä lisää 1970, from the Université de Paris. In 1964, he joined the French Department of the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, teaching literature until 1970. IN 1968, at the age of 31, he published his hugely successful novel, La Guerre, Yes Sir!. Since then he has written many other novels, short stories, plays, film and television scripts, essays, travel books, and poetry. He continued his teaching career at the Université de Montréal from 1970 to 1971. In 1971, he was appointed secretary general of the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. From 1973 to 1980, he was the director of the French Department and coordinator of the undergraduate program in Canadian Studies at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean. He stayed on and was appointed to various positions, becoming the principal in 1990. In 1991, Carrier was awarded the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour for Prayers of a Very Wise Child. Carrier is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has honorary doctorates from the Université de Moncton, York University, Memorial University and the Royal Military College of Canada. From 1994 to 1997, he was the director of the Canada Council for the Arts. In October of 1999, Carrier became the National Librarian of Canada. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

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Tekijän teokset

The Hockey Sweater (1979) 373 kappaletta
La Guerre, Yes Sir! (1968) 144 kappaletta
The Flying Canoe (2004) 33 kappaletta
Prayers of a Very Wise Child (1988) 26 kappaletta
Heartbreaks Along the Road (1984) 19 kappaletta
The Longest Home Run (1993) 19 kappaletta
A Happy New Year's Day (1991) 17 kappaletta
The End (1992) 16 kappaletta
Man in the Closet (1993) 16 kappaletta
Floralie, Where Are You? (1971) 15 kappaletta
The Basketball Player (1996) 14 kappaletta
Lady With Chains (1981) 14 kappaletta
Is It the Sun, Philibert? (1970) 13 kappaletta
The Lament of Charlie Longsong (1998) 12 kappaletta
No Country Without Grandfathers (1977) 10 kappaletta
Garden of Delights (AF ; 38) (1975) 9 kappaletta
Prayers of a Young Man (1998) 9 kappaletta
They won't demolish me (1973) 8 kappaletta
The Boxing Champion (1991) 8 kappaletta
JOLIS DEUILS (1988) 4 kappaletta
La célèste bicyclette (1980) 4 kappaletta
Petit Homme Tornade (1996) 3 kappaletta
Le deux-millième étage (1973) 3 kappaletta
Ours et le kangourou, L' (1986) 3 kappaletta
Ne faites pas mal à l'avenir (1984) 2 kappaletta
Fleurs vivent-elles ailleurs (1980) 2 kappaletta
Les voyageurs de l'arc-en-ciel (1980) 2 kappaletta
PRESQUE TOUT ROCH CARRIER (1996) 1 kappale
Un Champion (1993) 1 kappale
La Guerre Trilogy (2013) 1 kappale
Un champion (1991) 1 kappale
Le Jardin des délices (1988) 1 kappale
Nord No. 6 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Canadian Children's Treasury (1994) — Avustaja — 57 kappaletta
Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in Our History (2001) — Avustaja — 50 kappaletta
The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories (1984) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Conteurs franco-canadiens (2000) — Tekijä — 3 kappaletta

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Seeing Carrier read the title story in English in the early 1970s Vancouver was as exhilarating as reading it a few years later in French.
 
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sfj2 | 20 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Oct 31, 2023 |
A quirky book about life in a small Quebecois town. Child Canadiens fans, the wrong (Maple Leafs) sweater, and a final page in which the protagonist prays to God to send moths to eat the titular sweater add up to a very strange package.
 
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KSchellVT | 20 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 10, 2022 |
Richard's impact in Quebec is analogous to Jackie Robinson's or Muhammad Ali's. If you disagree, read this :)
 
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bishnu83 | 1 muu arvostelu | Apr 6, 2021 |
A young Montreal boy must endure the indignity of wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey sweater in this modern classic of Canadian children's literature. When his red, white and blue sweater - the uniform of the Montreal Canadiens, worn by his idol, Maurice Richard - becomes too small for him, the narrator's mother sends away for a new one from the Eaton's catalogue. When the wrong sweater arrives, the boy insists he will not wear it: all of his peers wear the Canadiens sweater, and so will he! His mother has other ideas however, and he finds himself wearing it after all. This leads to trouble at his first game thereafter, and a visit to church...

Originally published in French as "Une abominable feuille d'érable sur la glace" (literally: "An abominable maple leaf on the ice"), The Hockey Sweater was first translated into English in 1979 as part of the collection, The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories. It was made into a short film in 1980 ("The Sweater"), and presented in this picture-book form in 1984, with artwork by Sheldon Cohen, who also illustrated Carrier's The Flying Canoe. Set in 1946, the story is immensely engaging, and absolutely hilarious. I chuckled aloud on more than one occasion, while reading it. Carrier captures the centrality of ice hockey to the narrator's life (apparently the story is partially autobiographical) and to Canadian culture, and his narrative feels like it is told from an authentic boy's perspective. Cohen's artwork is colorful and entertaining, capturing the humor of the tale quite nicely. I enjoyed this so much that I think I will track down the larger collection of Carrier's stories, mentioned above. Recommended to anyone looking for children's stories featuring ice hockey and/or a French-Canadian cultural setting.
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