Antonine Maillet

Antonine Maillet, 2017

Antonine Maillet (born May 10, 1929 in Bouctouche ) is a Canadian writer (novels, plays, translations). She is considered a major exponent of French-language Canadian literature.

Maillet studied at the Université de Moncton , where she earned her master's degree in 1959. She received her PhD in literary studies from Laval University in 1970. She taught at Laval University and from 1971 to 1976 at Montreal University . Then she was an author and presenter at Radio Canada , for example at the presidential debate in 1988. She has been a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada since 1992. From 1989 to 2001 she was Chancellor of Moncton University, where she taught.

She has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley , and the University at Albany, The State University of New York .

In 1976 she became an officer of the Order of Canada , then in 1981 "Companion" of the Order of Canada and in 2005 a member of the Order of New Brunswick . In 1980 she received the Lorne Pierce Medal of the Royal Society of Canada , which she had already appointed to her subgroup "Academy of the Arts and Humanities" in 1976. In 1985 she became Officier des Arts et des Lettres in France and in 1980 officer of the Palmes académiques , in 2004 officer of the Legion of Honor and 1990 officer of the Ordre national du Québec .

Around a dozen plays and around twenty novels were written by her. Her first novel Pointe-aux-Coques was published in 1958. Her play La Sagouine from 1971 was a great success .

In 1979 she received the Prix ​​Goncourt for novels for her novel Pélagie-la-Charrette as the first non-European prizewinner (i.e. male or female author outside Europe). The novel was a bestseller with over 1 million copies sold. It is about the French- speaking Acadians who were expelled from Canada in the 18th century and their longing for their homeland.

She has received numerous honorary doctorates and diplomas. A school in Oshawa , Ontario is named after her.

She translated George Bernhard Shaw , Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare .

She is a member of the Académie des lettres du Québec.

Works

• "La femme" et "l'enfant" dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy . " Magistra Artium, thesis. University of Saint-Joseph , Moncton 1959
• Pélagie-la-Charrette. Grasset, 1979
  • Übers. Andrea Maria Humpl: With half of the heart. dtv, Munich 2002
• Don l'Orignal, 1972 (received the Prix ​​du Gouverneur général )
• Mariaagélas 1973 (received the Prix France-Canada)
• Acadie pour quasiment rien, 1973
• Évangeline Deusse, 1975
• Les cordes-de-bois, 1977
• La gribouille, 1982
• Le huitième jour, 1986
• Parderrière chez mon père. Leméac, 1987
  • Excerpt, trans. Beate Thill: The school. Narrative. In: America writing differently. Literature from Quebec 1945 - 2000. Ed. Lothar Baier and a. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2000, pp. 95 - 100 (L'École)
• L'oursiade. 1990
  • Übers. Bernd Hagenau: Bears live dangerously. Novel. Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1992
• Comme un cri du coeur, 1992
• Les confessions de Jeanne de Valois, 1992
• Le chemin St-Jacques, 1996
• Chronique d'une sorcière de vent, 1999
• Madame Perfecta, 2002

literature

• Dieter Meindl: Longfellow et Antonine Maillet. In North American Encounters. Essays in US and English and French Canadian Literature and Culture. Series: Erlanger Studies in English and American Studies, 3. Lit, Münster 2002 (about Akadien bei Maillet)
• Georg A. Kaiser, Florian Friday: Antonine Maillet's "La Sagouine". Interdisciplinary encounters in the academy. In: America Romana in colloquio Berolinensi. Contributions to the transversal section 2 of the 32nd German Romance Day 2011, pp. 43 - 57 full text

Web links

• Antonine Maillet ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Maillet: Entry in the project Canadian Writers (French Writers) of the Athabasca University , with further links, in English - By Marlene Wurfel
• Maillets "La Sagouine": Interdisciplinary encounters in the academy, by Georg A. Kaiser, Florian Freitag