A celebration of the life of well-known Sudbury poet Robert Dickson will be held April 14 at Theatre du Nouvel-Ontario (TNO).
Dickson died March 19 at the age of 62 after a short battle with cancer. The service will start at 6:30 pm, and people can participate by singing a song or sharing an anecdote about Dickson.
Contact Editions Prise de parole in advance at [email protected].
A retired professor of French studies and translation at Laurentian University, Dickson, who grew up in an English home in Toronto, Dickson enthusiastically shared his passion for French-Canadian culture and art with students and the world since the 1970s.
He has published numerous books of French poetry, and wrote songs for the musical group CANO.
Dickson won critical acclaim in 2004 when he published Champion et Ooneemeetoo, a French-language translation of Tomson Highway's novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen.
In 2002, he won the Governor General's Literary Award for French poetry, making Dickson the first professor at Laurentian to be bestowed with the prestigious honour. Last summer, Dickson received an honourary degree from Laurentian.
