Marie-Claire Blais
Canadian writer (1939–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marie-Claire Blais CC OQ MSRC (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts.
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Born | (1939-10-05)5 October 1939 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
Died | 30 November 2021(2021-11-30) (aged 82) Key West, Florida, U.S. |
Occupation | Author, playwright |
Nationality | Canadian |
Education | Université de Montréal (2002–2003), Université de Montréal (1993–1997), Université Laval |
Genre | Romance, theatre, screenplay, poetry, essay |
Notable awards | Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada |
Some of her works included La Belle Bête (1959), The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange (1968), Deaf to the City (1979), and a ten-volume series Soifs written between 1995 and 2018.