One of Canada's ITDSt distinguished writers, Mr. Tirrothy Findley, will read from his new novel, FANDUS LAST WORDS, At the Great Geroge Stree Gallery at 8:00 p.m. March 25.

Timothy Findley was born in Toronto, Ontario, on October 30, 1930. His secondary education was interrupted by illness and his teachers advised the family that education under a formalized system would be less successful than self-education. An actor for 15 years, Mr. Findley was a charter member of the Stratford. Shakespearean Festival in 1953, and a contract player with H.M.Tennant of London from 1953 to 1956. He worked with such luminaries as Alec Guinness, Peter Brook, and Tyrone Guthrie, eventually touring the Soviet Union in Scofield's Hamlet. A tour of the United States even brought him to Hollywood. After many radio, television, and stage roles in Canada,

.Mr. Findley began writing

professionally for radio, television. film, and theatre in 1962.

Timothy Findley's reputation as a script writer blossomed after seven episodes in the CBC's The Whiteoaks of Jalna in 1971. Also in that year he won the Armstrong Award for the Journey. HIs career has been further disting- uished by an ACI‘RA Award, which he shared with his friend William Whitehead, in 1975 for writing eight episodes of the National Dream and the Anik Award

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astonishing documents of our century. And he etches it with a silver pencil

on the Walls and ceilings of the hotel in which '

he is hiding. He doc1m1ents the murder of decency and reason, political plots and intrigues, and tells

the dramatic story of

the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Timothy Findley': FANDUS LAST MDRDS is an atrbitious and terribly powerful work, which will certainly win this author international acclaim.

also shared with William Whitehead, in 1980 for Dieppe 1942. His credits also include episodes for The Newcomers, 1832 and 1911, and Other Peo le's Children. HIs work in

showcased in Ottawa with the play Can You See Me Yet?, which was staged at the National Arts Centre

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Theatre Iondon in 1979, ‘Ihe Wars ,» the novel

the Governor—General's Award for 1977, was his third novel. HIS two previous novels are The Last of the Crazy Pee—fie (1967) and The Butterfly Pla$e(l969) . The Wars has been translated into eight languages and will ' ‘ soon be released as a film. The book, from which Mr. Findley will be reading, is narrated by an expatriate American writer, a Fascist campfollower and a protege of Ezra Pound -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly. It is 1945. Facing death, bauberley creates a testament which is one of the most

UPEI WORLD PROBLEMS SERlES presents a public lectyre on POLAND TODAY

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sponsored by the Christian Culture Committee of the Board of Goyernors

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