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Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007
CANADIAN NOVELIST TO SPEAK AT K-STATE NOV. 2
MANHATTAN -- Québec novelist Arlette Cousture will speak on "The Novelist and the Creative Process" at Kansas State University 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, in the K-State Student Union Room 213.
The three-volumes of Cousture's historical saga Les Filles de Caleb (Caleb’s Daughters) sold more than 1.3 million copies in French alone, and were made into a popular television version that shattered all records for viewer ratings on Radio-Canada.
A reception hosted by Canadian Studies will follow her talk. This talk is sponsored by the Quebec Delegation along with K-State's Canadian studies program and the department of modern languages.
Cousture's visit to K-State is part of a Midwest tour, where she is discussing her works at five universities.
Novelist Cousture holds her baccalauréat in arts from the College of Sainte-Marie and has training in cultural and theatrical animation from the University of Quebec in Montreal. She practiced many professions before dedicating herself entirely to writing. At Radio Canada, she was first a host of a weekly program for young people called "Caméra-Moto" from 1971-1972. She then became a researcher at Radio Canada for "Week-end à Montréal" from 1973 to 1975, and creator for "Tele-Jean" in 1977. From1975 to 1978, she was a researcher and host for the program "Femme d’Aujourd’hui" (Women Today), and, in 1978, she was a journalist for both the national and regional editions of Téléjournal. From 1979 to 1987, she held several positions within Hydro-Quebec including public relations, communications adviser, and journalist for Courants and Hydro-Presse.