Literary Biography
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BOOK-RELATED:

   

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In a Polisario Guerrilla Bunker in West Sahara - 1980

(Baraka)

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Traveling Behind the Lines with Polisario Guerrillas - 1980

(Baraka)

   

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Secret Negotiations with Vietnamese Government over offshore oil rights - 1976

(Baraka)

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Refugee Camp Outside Tindouf in Southwest Algeria -
1980

(Baraka)

   

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With commanders of Burmese guerrilla group - Shan State Army - early 1980s

(Next Best Thing)

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Traveling with Shan State Army on an opium trail
- early 1980s

(Next Best Thing)

   

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In Pagan in the Shan States in Burma - early 1980s

(Next Best Thing)


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With Gen. Dlimi, the then strong man of Morocco, at his house in Marrakesh - early 1980s

(Baraka and De Si Bons Américains)

   

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Near Rivers Manitoba, where he spent part of his childhood
- late 1990s

(Reflections of a Siamese Twin)

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Colloquim on Saul's writings in Siena, Italy - 2002

 

   

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At a colloquim on Saul's writings in Siena, Italy
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with philosopher Giulio Giorello, seated far left) - 2002

Author Evening at George Restaurant in Toronto for Extraordinary Canadians Series - 2007

(Extraordinary Canadians)

 

THE NORTH:

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First Trip to Arctic as Special Assistant to Chair of Petro-Canada - 1976

 


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Took a group of non-Canadian writers to the Arctic, including Nélida Pinon, David Young, Betty Friedan, Édouard Glissant, Chinua Achebe in village of Igloolik
(JRS is on far left) - 1989

(PEN)

   

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With Sam Omik and Moses Amarualik on a trip out on the land to Sattuk (North Shore of Baffina Island)
- Feburary 2001

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With hunter Sam Omik, Simon Kautak, Ranger Norman Simonie and Moses Amarualik
- Sattuk
   

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With Grade 10 and 11 writing classes at the Nasivvik High School
Pond Inlet- 2001


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Out with the ranger patrol, along with Michel-Marc Bouchard and David Young, outside Iqaluit
(JRS 2nd from right) - 2000

   

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At Pond Inlet, on the Northern tip of Baffin Island in Nunavut - 2005

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With Francophone and bilingual students from Iqaluit - 2005

   

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Negotiating the Rapids on the Snake River in Yellowknife with Bob Jickling
- 2003

(photo credit: Lachlin McKinnon)

 

 

MILITARY:

   

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At Lookout with Canadian Solider in Kabul - 2004

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Going on Patrol with RCR in Afghanistan - New Year's Eve, 2003

   

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With Brigadier Hamilton Gault (founder of the PPCLI), his wife Dorothy, Major Bill Saul, and brother Alastair at Gault's summer house
St. Hilaire, QC - July 1952

 

 

CAUSES:

   

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Meeting in Kabul with Afghani writers, members of new PEN club - 2003

(PEN)

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In conversation with David Malouf at LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium - 2004

(LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium)

   

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With Francophone and bilingual students from Iqaluit - 2005

(French for the Future)

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Speaking with Student Ambassadors in Ottawa - 2005

(French for the Future)

   

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With Student Ambassadors at Rideau Hall - 2005

(French for the Future)

 

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With Student Ambassadors at Glendon College- 2008

(photo credit: Tom Sandler)

(French for the Future)

   

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Student Ambassadors at Glendon College- 2008

(photo credit: Tom Sandler)

(French for the Future)

 

 

EVENTS:

12 November 2007 at Villa Decius, Krakow (Poland) giving Inaugural Address for Captive Mind Revisited Conference

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JRS in discussion with audience members after his keynote address

 

 

28 September 2007 at Bard College (New York), performing in John Cage Event, "Lecture on the Weather" - photo credits: Donald Dietz

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JRS in rehearsal

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Group Rehearsal

   

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JRS on stage with American composer, Mikel Rouse

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JRS with Mikel Rouse and dance choreographer Merce Cunningham