(courtesy Dan Harasymchuk, Wikimedia Commons) Roméo Dallaire and the Rwandan Genocide Was not directly based on Dallaire’s experience but was instead inspired by him and his book Shake Hands With the Devil (2003).Įric Walters at the Eden Mills Writers Festival in 2016. ( See Canadian Peacekeepers in Rwanda.) Walters was initially unsure of how to approach the story. Heroes, an attendee suggested he write about Roméo Dallaire, the Canadian commander of two United Nations’ He was inspired to write Shattered after an encounter at an event for his novel Run, about Terry Fox. Walters was familiar with the struggles of homelessness and mental illness from both his workĪnd personal life. Stand Your Ground alsoĭrew on his experience as an emergency room social worker, which Walters had been since the late 1980s. Disturbed by his students’ lack of interest in reading, he tried to engage them by writing a book that featured students from his class. He wrote his first novel, Stand Your Ground (1993), while teaching Grade 5 at Vista Heights Public School in Mississauga, A Member of the Order of Canada, Walters has published more thanġ00 books since 1993, making him Canada’s most prolific author. (courtesy Department of National Defence/Veterans Affairs Canada) BackgroundĮric Walters was born in Toronto in 1957. Canadian soldier cleaning a boy in Rwanda.
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