Hubert Aquin was a Quebec novelist, political activist, essayist, filmmaker and editor. Aquin was born in Montreal and graduated from the Universit� de Montr�al in 1951. From 1951 to 1954, he studied at the Institut d'�tudes politiques in Paris. On his return to Montreal worked for Radio-Canada from 1955 until 1959. From 1960 to 1968, Aquin was active in the movement for Quebec independence. He was an executive member of the first independentist political party, the Rassemblement pour l'ind�pendance nationale. In 1964, he announced that he was going "underground" to work for independence through terrorism; he was arrested shortly thereafter and detained for four months in a psychiatric hospital. It was there that he wrote his first novel, Prochain �pisode, the story of an imprisoned revolutionary. In December 1964, he was acquitted of illegal possession of a firearm. Regarded as a classic of Canadian literature, Aquin's novel Next Episode, was chosen for the 2003 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by journalist Denise Bombardier. It was the winning title. 

October 24th, 1929 in Montreal  /  Died:   Mar 15th, 1977