François Ricard (born June 4, 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec. He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous works of non-fiction.Born and raised in Shawinigan, he was educated at McGill University and the University of Provence.He was a founder of the literary journal Liberté, has served on the editorial boards of the publishing houses Éditions Sentier and Éditions du Boréal, and has contributed to both Radio-Canada and Télé-Québec as a literature reviewer and a host of documentary programming on Quebec literature and history. Wikipedia
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