Marie-Claire Blais

Marie-Claire Blais
Blais at the 2010 Montréal Book Fair
Blais at the 2010 Montréal Book Fair
Born(1939-10-05)5 October 1939
Québec, Québec, Canada
Died30 November 2021(2021-11-30) (aged 82)
Key West, Florida, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, playwright
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversité de Montréal (2002–2003), Université de Montréal (1993–1997), Université Laval
GenreRomance, theater, screenplay, poetry, essay
Notable awardsGovernor General's Award for French-language fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Marie-Claire Blais, CC OQ MSRC (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright. She wrote novels, plays, poetry, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. 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.

Blais died 30 November 2021, in Key West, Florida at the age of 82.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Girard-Bossé, Alice (30 November 2021). "L'écrivaine Marie-Claire Blais n'est plus". La Presse (in French). Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Deborah Dundas, "Québec writer Marie-Claire Blais, once the enfant terrible of French Canadian fiction, has died at the age of 82" Archived 2 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine Toronto Star 1 December 2021