Marie-Claire Blais

Marie -Claire Blais, CC, OQ ( born October 5, 1939 in Quebec ) is a Canadian writer.

Biography

Blais was born in 1939 in Quebec City and received her education there, including at the Université Laval. 1959, at age twenty, she published her first novel, La Belle Bête. Since then, Blais wrote over 20 novels and several dramas; also published poetry and essays. In 1963 he moved Blais in the U.S.; in Cambridge (Massachusetts ) Edmund Wilson introduced her to the American painter and writer Mary Meigs ( 1917-2002 ), the life partner of their firm in 1972. Blais often changed their places of residence; since the 1970s, they lived among other things, in Brittany, then again in Quebec, after a long pendulum in Florida between Quebec City, Montreal and Key West.

Blais twice received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1972 awarded the Compagnon de l' Ordre du Canada.

Awards (selection)

Works

  • La Belle Bête, 1959 ( as a ballet Mad Shadows 1977 by André Gagnon; 2006 filmed by Karim Hussain )
  • Tête Blanche, 1960
  • Le Jour est noir, 1962
  • Pays Voiles, 1963
  • Une vie d' Emmanuel season dans la, 1965 ( filmed in 1973 by Claude Weisz ) German Black winter. Novel, Kiepenheuer and Malevich, Cologne and Berlin, 1967; as dtv - band 642, Munich 1970
Cambridge (Massachusetts) Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life Integrated Authority File
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