Robert Dickson (writer)
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Robert Dickson was a Canadian poet, translator and academic.
Dickson formerly worked as a professor for le Département d'études françaises et de traduction (Department of French Studies and Translation) at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. He won the Governor-General's Award for French language poetry in 2002, for his book Humains paysages en temps de paix relative ("Human Landscapes in Times of Relative Peace").
Dickson also wrote songs for the Franco-Ontarian folk rock group CANO in the 1970s.
He is not to be confused with former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Brian Dickson, whose full legal name was Robert George Brian Dickson.
Dickson passed away in his home, on the snowy Sudbury morning of March 19th 2007; he died after a long and hard battle with cancer. He would have been 63 in July.
"Si je peux poser quelques pierre blanches
pour baliser le sentier à inventer,
je ne serais que très content,
croyant que j'ai ainsi fait quelque chose
de valable avec ma vie." - Robert Dickson
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