Roger Fournier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roger Fournier

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1929

Place of Birth: Rimouski, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 31-May-2012

Profession: writer, film director

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Roger Fournier (October 22, 1929 - May 31, 2012) was a Canadian writer and television director.
He was most noted for his novel Le cercle des arènes, which won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction and the Prix France-Québec in 1982, and his screenplay for the film A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi), for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1983.He was a longtime television director for Télévision de Radio-Canada, including on the series Moi et l'autre and Bye Bye, and assisted in creating Gilles Vigneault's first concert tour.