Occupation Author, playwright Nationality Canadian | Name Marie-Claire Blais Role Writer | |
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Born October 5, 1939 (age 85) Quebec City ( 1939-10-05 ) Movies Tu as crie: Let Me Go, Le sourd dans la ville Education Universite de Montreal (2002–2003), Universite de Montreal (1993–1997), Laval University Awards Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Mad Shadows, The angel of solitude, Deaf to the city, These festive nights, Nights in the underground Similar People Mary Meigs, Marcel Gauchet, Gabrielle Roy, Anne Hebert, Barbara Deming | ||
Entrevue de jos e dupuis avec marie claire blais
Marie-Claire Blais, CC OQ MSRC (born 5 October 1939 in Quebec City) is a French Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec.
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- Entrevue de jos e dupuis avec marie claire blais
- 7 1 22 6 mme claudine d om et mme marie claire blais analyse perceptions
- Life
- Writings
- Impact
- Works
- Awards
- References
7 1 22 6 mme claudine d om et mme marie claire blais analyse perceptions
Life
Born in Quebec City, she was educated at a convent school, and at Université Laval, where she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges Lévesque, who encouraged her to write, causing her to publish her first novel La Belle Bête (trans. Mad Shadows) in 1959 when she turned 20. She has since written over 20 novels, several plays, collections of poetry and fiction, as well newspaper articles. Her works have been translated into numerous languages, including English and Chinese. With the support of the eminent American critic Edmund Wilson, Blais won two Guggenheim Fellowships.
In 1963, Blais moved to the United States, initially living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There she met her partner, American artist Mary Meigs, and she later relocated to Wellfleet on Cape Cod. In 1975, after two years living in Brittany, she moved back to Quebec with her partner. For about twenty years she divided her time between Montreal, the Eastern Townships of Quebec and Key West, Florida.
Writings
Much of Blais' writing has been in the form of social commentary, with intermixed elements of good and evil in settings part real, and part fantasy. Her works lean toward the tragic, within a hostile society of vice and violence. The strength of Blais' writing ability is rewarding to the reader in spite of the darker aspects of her themes.
Impact
In 1972 she became a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Her works La Belle Bête (1959), Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (1965) and Le Sourd dans la ville (1979), have been adapted for the cinema.
Canadian film director Karim Hussain adapted La Belle Bête in 2006. He won the Director's Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival's for the film.