Marie-Claire Blais

Marie-Claire Blais (1939-2021), born in Quebec City into a working-class family, left school at fifteen to work and wrote in her spare time. Encouraged by Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, she published her first novel at twenty. The American critic Edmund Wilson, who called her a real phenomenon and perhaps a genius, supported her application for a Guggenheim fellowship in 1963, and she settled in the United States. Four times winner of the Governor General's Award, she wrote a cycle of ten novels in long continuous sentences. Living in Key West, she died there in 2021.

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• NovelA Season in the Life of EmmanuelUne saison dans la vie d'EmmanuelMarie-Claire Blais · 1965Literature