Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais was born on October 5, 1939. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning more than sixty years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts. Some of her most famous works are: Mad Shadows (La Belle Bête, 1959), A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (1965), The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange (1968), Deaf to the City (1979), and the ten-volume series Soifs written between 1995 and 2018.