Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais , CC , OQ (born October 5, 1939 in Québec ) is a Canadian writer .
biography
Blais was born in the city of Québec in 1939 and received her education there, including at the Université Laval . In 1959, at the age of twenty, she published her first novel, La Belle Bête . Since then, Blais has written over 20 novels and several dramas; poetry and essays were also published. In 1963 Blais moved to the United States; in Cambridge (Massachusetts) made Edmund Wilson it with the American painter and writer Mary Meigs known (1917-2002), in 1972 its firm life partner was. Blais moved frequently; since the 1970s she lived in Brittany , then again in Québec, and then commuting for a long time between Québec, Montreal and Key West in Florida .
Blais received two Guggenheim scholarships and was honored as Compagnon de l'Ordre du Canada in 1972.
Awards (selection)
- 1966: Prix Médicis (France) for Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
- 1968: Prix du Gouverneur général pour romans et nouvelles for Manuscrits de Pauline Archange
- 1979: Prix du Gouverneur général pour romans et nouvelles for Le Sourd dans la ville
- 1996: Prix du Gouverneur général pour romans et nouvelles for Soifs
- 1999: Prix d'Italie
- 2006: Matt Cohen Prize for Lifetime Achievement
- 2008 Prix du Gouverneur général for Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments
- 2014: Canada Reads / Le combat des livres , French division, 1st place, for La Belle Bête
- 2016: Prix Molson of the Canada Council
Works
- La Belle Bête , 1959 (as ballet Mad Shadows 1977 by André Gagnon ; filmed in 2006 by Karim Hussain )
- Tete Blanche , 1960
- Le jour est noir , 1962
- Pays voilés , 1963
-
Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel , 1965 (filmed in 1973 by Claude Weisz)
- Übers. Orka Brigitte Fischer: Black Winter. Novel . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1967; again dtv 642, Munich 1970
- Les voyageurs sacrés , 1966, 1969, again 1992 (this edition with L'exilé , new in front)
- L'insoumise , 1966
- Existences , 1967
- Les Manuscrits de Pauline Archange , 1968
- L'exécution , 1968
- Les Voyageurs sacrés , 1969
- Vivre! Vivre! , 1969
- Le Loup , 1970
- Un Joualonais, sa Joualonie , 1973
- Fièvre et autres textes dramatiques , 1974
- Une Liaison Parisienne , 1975
- Les Apparences , 1976
- Océan suivi de murmures , 1977
- Les Nuits de l'underground , 1978
- Le Sourd dans la ville , 1979 (filmed in 1987 by Mireille Dansereau)
- Visions d'Anna ou Le vertige , 1982
- Sommeil d'hiver , 1984
- Pierre, la guerre du printemps , 1984
- L'Île , 1989
- L'Ange de la solitude , 1989
-
L'exilé . Novellas, 1992 (see above 1966)
- Engl .: The Exile and the Sacred Travelers , 2000
- Excerpt, trans. Beate Thill: Tender, (Tendresse) in America writing differently. Literature from Québec. Ed. Lothar Baier , Pierre Filion. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2000, pp. 28–31
- Parcours d'un écrivain: Notes américaines , 1993
- Soifs , 1995
-
Dans la foudre et la lumière , 2001
- engl .: The Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais , 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie-Claire Blais in the catalog of the German National Library
- Marie-Claire Blais in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blais in the project French-Canadian Writers, Athabasca University , by Marlene Wurfel (Eng.) With links to primary and secondary literature.
- comptoirlitteraire: on Vision d'Anna , summary (French)
-
ibid on Une Saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel , by André Durand
- Biography, ibid
- Comprehensive bibliography, Fondation Nelligan (incl. Until 2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Excerpt in Women in Canada. Stories and poems. dtv, Munich 1993, pp. 69-81. Reviews: Gerda Zeltner, NZZ , May 6, 1967; François Bondy : A novel from Quebec. France's new literary province , Die Zeit , November 24, 1967; Heinrich Vormweg : Fame and End of a Childlike François Villon, Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 24, 1968
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blais, Marie-Claire |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quebec City |