Guy Dubois, the owner of the La Maison Anglaise, the only English
bookstore east of Montreal, is also one of the founders and backers
of the Quebec Book Festival, the only English book festival
in Quebec city.
At the Salon du Livre, which is mainly French books, La Maison
Anglaise has a booth. They set up a nice display of my books.
I was honoured to be visited by Roch Carrier, acknowledged
to be the most prestigious writer Francophone writer in Canada.
He himself has a marvelous book out this year in French.
Roch Carrier is so famous there are lines from his short story,
"The Hockey Sweater”, in both French and English on the
Canadian $5 bill (bottom left of bill): “Nous vivions en trois lieux :
l’école, l’église et la patinoire; mais la vraie vie était sur la patinoire.”
"We lived in three places - the school, the church and the
skating rink - but our real life was on the skating rink."
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