John Ralston Saul Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Ralston Saul, CC (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian author, essayist, President of PEN International, and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the non-profit, the Institute for Canadian Citizenship.As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, in particular irregular warfare; the role of freedom of speech and culture; and his critique of contemporary economic arguments.
It's a very delicate time for Canada. Canada is this very unusual project and we have to be able to understand and describe ourselves to other people and ourselves. We are a country based on complexity and multiple overlapping ideas of ourselves. Canadians like complexity and they like being complicated. And we are most successful when we have fun with ourselves.
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I'm one of those novelists who have had a way of wandering in and out of something. It's a way of living your life.
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I was talking to a dictator the other day and it was so boring. Dictators don't have anything to say.
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[on his novel 'Dark Diversions'] Novels last because they aren't true. [So] if you are going to write about the rich-out-of-control in the late 20th century, this is the way to do it. This is a novel without a hint of moral redemption in it. You are supposed to read this book laughing so hard you don't realize you are slitting your throat. Black comedy is a great tool of the writer. Come back to it if you want to say something really awful.
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Former Vice-Regal Consort of Canada (1999-2005).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Extraordinary Canadians
2011-2017
TV Series
An introduction by
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Extraordinary Canadians
2012-2017
TV Series
Himself
Days of Revolt
2015
TV Series
Himself - Author, 'Voltarie's Bastards'
The Sunday Programme
2005
TV Series
Himself
Who's the Man: Masculinity, Mythos and the Media
2004
Documentary
John Ralston Saul
Attack on the U.S.A.: Canadian Service of Remembrance
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Known for movies
Who's the Man: Masculinity, Mythos and the Media (2004) as John Ralston Saul
Extraordinary Canadians (2011-2017) as An introduction by / Himself
Attack on the U.S.A.: Canadian Service of Remembrance (2001) as Himself
Days of Revolt (2015) as Himself - Author, 'Voltarie's Bastards'
$5 Million