Roch Carrier

Roch Carrier OC FRSC
Carrier in 2006
Born	(1937-05-13) 13 May 1937 (age 86) Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada
Language	French
Notable works	The Hockey Sweater
Notable awards	Order of Canada

Roch Carrier

He was born in Sainte-Justine, Quebec, and studied at Collège St-Louis in New Brunswick, the Université de Montréal in Quebec, and at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France, where he received a doctorate in literature.

From 1994 to 1997, he served as head of the

In 1991, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. From 1999 to 2004, Carrier was National Librarian of Canada. With Ian E. Wilson, the then National Archivist, he developed the process to unify the National Archive and National Library.

In 1992, Carrier's Prayers of a Very Wise Child (Prières d'un enfant très très sage) won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

Carrier championed Jacques Poulin's novel Volkswagen Blues in Canada Reads 2005.

Also involved in theatre (having served as playwright at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde), Carrier has adapted La guerre, yes sir! and Floralie, où es-tu? for the stage. La guerre, yes sir! was produced as a play in 1970, was performed in English at the Stratford festival, and has been made into a film. Floralie, où es-tu? was performed by Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde in 1974. The trilogy consisting of these two novels and Il est par là, le soleil sold better in English than in French.^[1]

A quote from "Le chandail de hockey" ("

Sheila Fischman has won various awards for translation of his books into English.

Two schools are named after Roch Carrier: Roch Carrier French Immersion Public School in Woodstock, Ontario, and Roch Carrier Elementary School in Kanata, Ontario.

Roch Carrier was president on the board of directors for the Society for Educational Visits and Exchanges in Canada, or SEVEC from 2008 to 2009. Upon his retirement from the board he was made an Honorary Member of the Society.

Selected works

• Jolis deuils: Petites tragédies pour adults — 1964
• La guerre, yes sir! — 1968 (translated as La Guerre, Yes Sir! — 1970)
  ISBN 0-88784-626-2
• Floralie, où es-tu ? — 1969 (translated as Floralie, Where Are You? — 1971)
• Il est par là, le soleil — 1970 (translated as Is It the Sun, Philibert? — 1972)
• Le deux-millième étage — 1973 (translated as They Won't Demolish Me! — 1974)
• Le jardin des délices — 1975 (translated as The Garden of Delights — 1978)
• Il n'y a pas de pays sans grand-père — 1977 (translated as No Country Without Grandfathers — 1981)
• Les Enfants du bonhomme dans la lune — 1979 (translated as The Hockey Sweater and other stories — 1979)
• Les voyageurs de l'arc-en-ciel — 1980 illustration & book design by François Olivier
• Céleste bicyclette — 1980 (translated as The Celestial Bicycle)
• La dame qui avait des chaînes aux chevilles — 1981 (translated as Lady with Chains)
• Le cirque noir — 1982
• Ne faites pas mal à l'avenir — 1984
• De l'amour dans la ferraille — 1984 (translated as Heartbreaks Along The Road)
• La fleur et autres personages — 1985
• Un chameau en Jordanie — 1988
• Enfants de la planète — 1989
• L'homme dans le placard — 1991 (translated as The Man in the Closet)
• Le cannot dans les nuages — 1991
• Prières d'un enfant très très sage — 1991 (translated as Prayers of a Very Wise Child)
• Fin — 1994 (translated as The End)
• Petit homme tornade — 1996 (translated as The Lament of Charlie Longsong)
• Prières d'un adolescent très très sage — 1998 (translated as Prayers of a Young Man)
• Une chaise — 1999
• Les moines dans la tour — 2004
• Ma vie avec Maurice Richard (My life with Maurice Richard)
• Montcalm et Wolfe — 2014 (translated as Montcalm and Wolfe by Donald Winkler)

• Canadian literature

References

Further reading

• Manfred Overmann: "Le chandail de Hockey." Didactisation du conte de Roch Carrier et du court métrage animé par
  ISSN 1863-1622
  pp 106 – 136 (in French)