BOISE STATE PROF FEATURED AT LOG CABIN PROGRAM ON JAN. 18

A Boise State University professor who translated a novel by Quebec author Réjean Ducharme from French to English will read from his work at a program at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Log Cabin Literary Center, 801 S. Capitol Blvd.

Will Browning, a professor of French and Spanish at Boise State, will join Albertson College English professor Diane Raptosh in “Warming Up for Valentine’s Day: Poetry on Love and Other Detours.” The program costs $4 for Log Cabin members, $6 for non-members, and is free to college students.

Browning’s translation of “The Daughter of Christopher Columbus,” or “La Fille de Christophe Colomb,” by Ducharme, was published by Guernica Editions of Toronto in 2000. In this novel in verse, a beautiful and naive Columbia Columbus wanders through the world upon the death of her famous father. She ultimately makes friends with an ever-growing number of animals, some of whom serve as bodyguards during her dramatic return to Montreal in the year 2492 to celebrate the millennium of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America.

Ducharme is one of the foremost writers of Quebec and is winner of the Nelligan Foundation’s Gilles Corbeil Literary Prize (1990) and the Quebec government’s Athanase-David Literary Prize (1994). Author of nine novels, Ducharme has been a recluse for over 30 years.

Raptosh has had two books of her poetry published by Guernica Editions: “Just West of Now” in 1992 and “Labor Songs” in 1999. She will read a selection of her new poems.

Contact:
Will Browning
Modern languages and literatures department
426-1071