Canadian Novelist to Speak at UA

University of Alabama Friday 28th January, 2011

Modern Languages TUSCALOOSA, Ala.?? Noted Canadian novelist Francine D?Amour will deliver a lecture in French titled ?Pour de vrai, pour de faux?: le processus d??criture et ses transformations? (?True or False: The Process of Writing and its Transformations?) at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in 205 Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus. A book signing and reception will follow. D?Amour, who studied at the University of Ottawa in Canada and the University of Nice in France, has written several novels, including ';Le Retour d?Afrique,'; which is available in an English translation titled ?Return From Africa.? She published a collection of short stories titled

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