Terio, Yves

He dropped out of school at the age of 15 years. He worked in many specialties before becoming a famous writer.

Yves Terio was a member of the Union of Canadian Writers, the International PEN Club , the National Union of Writers of France, the Paris Society of Writers (Société des Gens de lettres), the Society of Canadian Writers and the Society of Playwrights.

• Order Officer of Canada
• Quebec Paris Prize (1961)
• Molson Prize (1970)

• Contes pour un homme seul (1944)
• La Fille Laide (1950)
• Le Dompteur d'ours (1950)
• Les Vendeurs du Temple (1953)
• Aaron (1954)
• Agaguk (1958)
• Ashini (1961)

His novels “Ugly Girl” (1950), “Aaron” (1954), “Ashini” (1960), “Big Romance of a Little Man” (1963), “Stone Rose” (1964), “Antoine and His Mountain” were published in Russian "(1969)," Agaguk "(2007), the story" Invisible Island "(1986), etc.

One of his most famous novels is Agaguk, the history of the cultural conflict between the Eskimos and the whites. The Eskimo tribe (or, as they call themselves, Inuit) lives in the tundra with its traditional life, but the “white man” is penetrating it more and more. White people buy skins from Inuit from hunting, and in return they sell weapons, salt, and alcohol. Inuit themselves did not notice how they turned out to be dependent on “white people”; they are no longer able to do without them and their goods.

Based on the scripts and works of the author, a number of films were shot, including “Here and Now” (1980), “Shadow of the Wolf” (1992)

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