Marie-Claire Blais

Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais at the 2010 Montréal Book Fair

Marie-Claire Blais, CC, OQ (born 5 October 1939) is a Canadian author and playwright.

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Life

Born in Quebec City, Quebec, she was educated at a convent school and at Université Laval. It was at Laval that she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges Lévesque, who encouraged her to write and, in 1959, 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 Le Sourd dans la ville (1979), Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (1965) and La Belle Bête (1959), have been adapted for the cinema, the latter by Canadian film director Karim Hussain in 2006.

Works

  • La Belle Bête (Mad Shadows) - 1959
  • Tête Blanche (Tête Blanche) - 1960
  • Le Jour est noir - ("The Day is Dark" in The Day is Dark and Three Travellers) 1962
  • Pays voilés ("Veiled Countries" in Veiled Countries/Lives) - 1963
  • Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (A Season in the Life of Emmanuel) - 1965
  • L'insoumise (The Fugitive) - 1966
  • Existences ("Lives" in Veiled Countries/Lives) - 1967
  • Les Manuscrits de Pauline Archange (The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange) - 1968
  • L'exécution (The Execution) - 1968
  • Les Voyageurs sacrés ("Three Travellers" in The Day is Dark and Three Travellers) - 1969
  • Vivre! Vivre! (The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange) - 1969
  • Le Loup (The Wolf) - 1970
  • Un Joualonais, sa Joualonie (St. Lawrence Blues) - 1973
  • Fièvre et autres textes dramatiques - 1974
  • Une Liaison parisienne (A Literary Affair) - 1975
  • Les Apparences (Dürer's Angel) - 1976
  • Océan suivi de murmures - 1977
  • Les Nuits de l'underground (Nights in the Underground) - 1978
  • Le Sourd dans la ville (Deaf to the City) - 1979
  • Visions d'Anna ou Le vertige (Anna's World) - 1982
  • Sommeil d'hiver (Wintersleep) - 1984
  • Pierre, la guerre du printemps (Pierre) - 1984
  • L'Île (The Island) - 1989]
  • L'Ange de la solitude (The Angel of Solitude) - 1989
  • Parcours d'un écrivain: Notes américaines (American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey) - 1993
  • Soifs (These Festive Nights) - 1995
  • (The Exile and the Sacred Travellers) - 2000
  • Dans la foudre et la lumière (Thunder and Light) - 2001
  • The Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais - 2007
  • Mai au bal des prédateurs - 2010

Awards

  • Prix France-Canada - 1965
  • Prix Médicis - 1966
  • Prix Athanase-David - 1982
  • Prix Ludger-Duvernay - 1988
  • Governor General's Literary Award - 1996
  • Prix d'Italie - 1999
  • W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize - 2000
  • Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco - 2002
  • Matt Cohen Prize - 2006

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