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Ian Brown, his name I didn't know...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 8:57 So am pleased that l'Arche Canada mentioned the honor his book The Boy in the Moon received. Since the individual articles at their site are not linkable, am copying most of the Brown one here.
After winning the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction last month, yesterday The Boy in the Moon was awarded the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.
In contrast to the three other prize finalists, all portraits of famous men, Ian Brown's book tells the story of his son. Walker Brown is a 13-year-old boy living with severe intellectual and physical disabilities, whose life inspired his father's search for meaning. Walker Brown's story, difficult and somber though it is, apparently touched the members of the jury more profoundly than did those of Pierre-Elliott Trudeau, Rene Levesque, and American press magnate William Randolph Hearst.
The book also presents L'Arche in an original way, as Ian Brown's research led him to visit L'Arche Montreal and Jean Vanier at L'Arche Trosly. Brown writes that L'Arche is the model, par excellence, for those who are most vulnerable, precisely because it is utopian - society in general not being ready for such an ideal.The winter issue of A Human Future features an interview with Ian Brown. Read A Human Future.
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