Marie-Claire Blais

Nov 13, 2024 | cbc.ca | Jordan Abel |Niigaan Sinclair |Chimwemwe Undi |Marie-Claire Blais

Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel has won the Governor General's Literary Awards for fiction for his novel Empty Spaces. Empty Spaces is among the 14 titles, seven in English and seven in French, that were acknowledged by the Governor General's Literary Awards as the best books of the year.

Oct 18, 2023 | quillandquire.com | Marie-Claire Blais

Marie-Claire Blais first appeared on the literary landscape fully formed at the age of 20; her debut, La Belle Bête (translated into English as Mad Shadows), caused a furor in her home province of Quebec. The novel’s ferocious intensity and cruelty announced a new kind of writer in the recondite French Canadian cultural sphere of 1959; it has been argued – credibly – that Blais helped anticipate (if not precipitate) the Quiet Revolution that began the following year.

Mar 14, 2023 | reviewcanada.ca | Marie-Claire Blais |Amanda Perry

Augustino ou l’illumination Les Éditions du Boréal 96 pages, softcover and ebook At first glance, Augustino ou l’illumination (Augustino or illumination) is a melancholy finale to Marie-Claire Blais’s oeuvre. The slim volume contains seventy pages left behind by the Quebec writer, who died suddenly on November 30, 2021. Yet, even in fragmentary form, the text testifies to the fact that Blais’s career was never going to wrap up neatly.