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One of UOP’s fall titles, The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab, will be featured at a reading at the Ottawa International Writers Festival on Sunday, October 2, 2005, at 2 p.m. at the Library and Archives of Canada.
The book has been gathering media attention since the Ottawa Citizen published a front page story about it in its August 27 edition. The diary tells the story of a group of Inuit from Labrador, who died of smallpox in Europe in 1880-81 as the result of a failed cross-cultural “exchange.”
The diary that Abraham Ulrikab kept during the journey was translated into English from German by Hartmut Lutz, director of Canadian Studies at the University of Greifswald, and his students. The project found a home at the UOP when Lutz spent a year at uOttawa’s Institute of Canadian Studies because he was the winner of the 2003 John G. Diefenbaker Award.
