Marie-Claire Blais
Contributor Banff Centre Press
Novelist, playwright and poet, Marie-Claire Blais has been an important
figure in the French literary scene for more than thirty-five years.
Blais has published twenty novels in Quebec and in France — all of which
have been translated into English — as well as seven plays and four
poetry collections. She wrote the screenplay Le Journal en images froides and contributed to the script of the documentary
Tu as crié let
me go by director Anne-Claire Poirier. A few of her novels have been
brought to film or television. She has won several prestigious awards,
including the Médicis award, and was decorated with the Order of Canada
and the Ordre national du Québec and made Chevalier des Arts et des
Lettres de France. She’s also a member of the Académie royale de langue
et de littérature française de Belgique, the first Quebec author to be
part of a European literary society.