1929
Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (died 1977)
Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (died 1977)
Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (died 1977)
Hubert Aquin
Quebec novelist and intellectual (1929–1977)
- Born
- 1929
Hubert Aquin was a Quebec writer, filmmaker and intellectual. He is particularly known for his novel Next Episode. He is also an important figure in the history of the Quebec independence movement, to which he contributed both as an activist and as an essayist. Tempted by suicide for a great part of his existence, he ended his life in 1977 in the gardens of Villa Maria College.
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