TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Noted Canadian novelist Francine D’Amour will deliver a lecture in French titled “Pour de vrai, pour de faux : le processus d’écriture 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 “Pour de vrai, pour de faux” in 2009. She received the Prix Québec-Paris in 1996 and retired from teaching at the Collège de Montmorency in 2005.
The lecture is sponsored by UA’s department of modern languages and classics, The College of Arts and Sciences and Capstone International Academic Programs.
For more details, contact Dr. Metka Zupančič at mzupanci@bama.ua.edu or 205/348-5133.
The department of modern languages and classics is part of UA’s College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the USA Today Academic All American Team.
Contact
Dr. Metka Zupančič, mzupanci@bama.ua.edu, 205/348-5133; Richard LeComte, media relations, rllecomte@ur.ua.edu