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John Ralston Saul is the International President of PEN International, an essayist, novelist, and long-time champion of freedom of expression. His works have been translated into twenty-three languages in thirty countries, are widely taught in universities, and central to the debate over contemporary society in many countries. They include the philosophical trilogy: _Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West_ , _The Doubter's Companion_ , _The Unconscious Civilization_ , and its conclusion, _On Equilibrium_. In _The Collapse of Globalism_ , he predicted today's economic crisis. In the autumn of 2012, he published his first novel in fifteen years, _Dark Diversions: A Traveller 's Tale_, a picaresque novel about the life of modern nouveaux riches. His awards include South Korea's Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Pablo Neruda Medal, Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction, the inaugural Gutenberg Galaxy Award for Literature, and Italy's Premio Letterario Internazionale. He is a Companion in the Order of Canada and a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He is the recipient of seventeen honorary degrees.