writing in canada: authors: marie-claire blais

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Marie-Claire Blais

1939 -

works by

fiction

La Belle bête / Mad Shadows (1959; trans. by Merloyd Lawrence 1960, NCL 1971)
Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel / A Season In the Life of Emmanuel (1965; trans. by Derek Coltman 1966)
Les manuscrits de Pauline Archange (1968)
Vivre! Vivre! (1969)
two books above published as The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange (1969; NCL 1962)
Les apparences (1970)
Dürer's Angel (1976)
Tête blanche (1960; trans. by Charles Fullman 1961, NCL 1974)
L'insoumise / The Fugitive (1966; trans. by David Lobdell 1978)
David Sterne (1967; trans. by David Lobdell 1973)
Le loup / The wolf (1972; trans. by Sheila Fischman 1974)
Une liaison parisienne / A Literary Affair (1975; trans. by Sheila Fischman 1970)
Un joualonais sa joualonie / St. Lawrence Blues (1973; trans. Ralph Manheim 1974)
Les nuits d'underground / Nights in the Underground (1978; trans. by Ray Ellenwood 1979)
Le sourd dans la ville / Deaf To the City (1979; trans. by Carol Dunlop 1980)
Visions d'Anna (1982)
Le jour est noir (1962)
Les voyageurs sacrés (1969)
two above titles published together as The Day is Dark and Three Travellers, translation by Derek Coltman (1967)
The Angel of Solitude (1994)

poetry

published plays

works on

J. Raymond Brazeau, An Outline of Contemporary French-Canadian Literature (1972)
Philip Stratford, in Canadian Writers and Their Works series (1970)
Thérèse Fabi, Marie-Claire Blai: le monde perturbé des jeunes dans l'oeuvre (1973)

awards

Governor General's Award for Les manuscrits de Pauline Archange (1968)
Prix Medicis of France for Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
Prix France-Canada for Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
Governor General's Award for Le sourd dans la ville (1979)
made a member of the Order of Canada
inducted into the Royal Academy of Language and Literature of Belgium in 1993
inducted into the Académie des lettres du Québec in 1994

resources

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