A quartet of Montreal legends will be honoured by Penguin Books and
Blue Metropolis, as the 2009 literary festival closes up shop with a special event on April 26. The event, featuring lectures about these defunct local boys by their own Penguin biographers, will match ex-GG Adrienne Clarkson with medical superhero Norman Bethune (above).
Novelist and editor M.G. Vassanji will cover Mordecai Richler.
Margaret MacMillan, the 2003 Governor General’s Award winner for Paris 1919, will tell you what she knows about Stephen Leacock.
Finally, Governor General’s Award-winning novelist Nino Ricci will pepper his audience with tidbits about Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Rounding out the crew will be series editor and former First Husband John Ralston Saul and CBC Blue host Paul Kennedy. The festival starts April 22.
A quartet of Montreal legends will be honoured by Penguin Books and Blue Metropolis, as the 2009 literary festival closes up shop with a special event on April 26. The event, featuring lectures about these defunct local boys by their own Penguin biographers, will match ex-GG Adrienne Clarkson with medical superhero Norman Bethune (above). 
Novelist and editor M.G. Vassanji will cover Mordecai Richler.
Margaret MacMillan, the 2003 Governor General’s Award winner for Paris 1919, will tell you what she knows about Stephen Leacock.
Finally, Governor General’s Award-winning novelist Nino Ricci will pepper his audience with tidbits about Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Rounding out the crew will be series editor and former First Husband John Ralston Saul and CBC Blue host Paul Kennedy. The festival starts April 22.
The last guy gets an airport. The other three? Nary a single Metro stop.
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