François Ricard (born June 4, 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian writer and academic from Quebec. He has been a professor of French literature at McGill University since 1980, including a special but not exclusive focus on the work of Milan Kundera and Gabrielle Roy, and has published numerous works of non-fiction. **Source**: [François Ricard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ricard) on Wikipedia