Marie-Claire Blais (1939–2021)
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Marie Claire Blais, 1939 - French-Canadian writer Marie Claire Blais was born in 1939. Her first published novel, "La Belle Bete" (1959; Mad Shadows, 1960), was received with mixed reviews. It tells the story of a family in her native Quebec Province that is shut off from other people and love. vis mere Blais has also written plays and poetry and used poetic techniques in the novella "Le Jour est Noir" (1962; The Day is Dark, 1967). Her best known novel, "Une Saison dans la Vie d'Emmanuel" (1965; A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, 1966), won France's Prix Medicis and tells the bleak story of people trapped in their worn degraded, poverty-stricken worlds. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Marie-Claire Blais
Le jour est noir; roman 1 eksemplar
Pays Voiles, Existences: poemes 1 eksemplar
Existences 1 eksemplar
Fievre, et autres textes dramatiques: Theatre radiophonique (Editions du jour, Montreal. [Publications. Hors… (1974) 1 eksemplar
Fonds Marie-Claire Blais, 1965-1982 1 eksemplar
Una stagione nella vita di Emanuele 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 174 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1939-10-05
- Dødsdag
- 2021-11-30
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Fødested
- Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Dødssted
- Key West, Florida, USA
- Bopæl
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Brittany, France
Key West, Florida, USA
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Uddannelse
- Université Laval
- Erhverv
- novelist
poet
playwright
scriptwriter - Relationer
- Meigs, Mary (partner)
Deming, Barbara (partner) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Order of Canada
Matt Cohen Prize (2006)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Prix Athanase-David (1982) - Agent
- Goodwin Agency
- Kort biografi
- Marie-Claire Blais was born to a working class family in Québec, Canada. She attended a convent school, but had to interrupt her education at age 15 to work, first as a clerk and later as a typist. At 17, she enrolled in a few classes at Laval University, where she met professor and literary critic Jeanne Lapointe and priest and sociologist Georges-Henri Lévesque, both of whom encouraged her to write.
Her debut novel, La belle bête (English translation: Mad Shadows) was published in 1959, when she was 20. It was quickly followed by Tête blanche in 1960. She received a grant from the Canada Council of Arts that allowed her to begin writing full-time, and she moved to Paris and later to the USA. Literary critic Edmund Wilson introduced her to artists and writers in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, including feminist Barbara Deming and writer and painter Mary Meigs. The three lived together in Wellfleet for six years. Blais was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and in 1975, moved back to Canada. For about 20 years she divided her time between Québec and Key West, Florida. Many of her novels were adapted for other formats: La belle bête was made into a ballet by the National Ballet of Canada in 1977 and into a film in 1976. Others made into movies included Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (1973); Le sourd dans la ville (Deaf to the City, 1987); and L'océan (1971).
She wrote a 10-volume series starting with Soifs (1995), translated into English as These Festive Islands, set in an island town modeled on Key West and her varied friends and acquaintances there. She had a devoted readership in the French language and won four Canadian Governor General's Literary Awards in her career.
In addition to her novels, she wrote several plays, collections of poetry, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television.
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