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Marie-Claire Blais

Born in 1939 in Québec, Marie-Claire Blais continues to dominate the literary landscape. Having published her first novel at the age of twenty, she has gone on to publish twenty novels to date in France and Quebec—all of which have been translated into English—as well as five plays and several collections of poetry. All of her writings have met with international acclaim.Talon has published her American Notebooks, a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer.Winner of the Prix Médicis, the Prix Belgo-Canadien, the Prix France-Québec, and many others, Blais continues to devote herself to work that is proud and exacting. Most recently, she has been invited, as one of the very few foreigners allowed, to join Belgium’s Academy of French Language and Literature.

Books by Marie-Claire Blais

Nights Too Short to Dance

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Katia Grubisic

Songs for Angel

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Katia Grubisic

A Twilight Celebration

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

These Festive Nights

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Sheila Fischman
introduction by Lisa Moore

Thunder and Light

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

The Acacia Gardens

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

American Notebooks

A Writer's Journey

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Linda Gaboriau

Nothing for You Here, Young Man

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

Mai at the Predators' Ball

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

Anna's World

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Sheila Fischman
introduction by Camilla Gibb

The Cashier

by (author) Gabrielle Roy
afterword by Marie-Claire Blais

Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

The Collected Stage Drama of Marie-Claire Blais

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

Mad Shadows

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
afterword by Daphne Marlatt

Wolf

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Sheil Fischman
introduction by Edmund White

Deaf to the City

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
introduction by Richard Teleky

Nights in the Underground

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
introduction by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

Exile & The Sacred Travellers, The

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais

Wintersleep

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Nigel Spencer

The Angel of Solitude

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Laura Hodes

Death of the Spider

by (author) Michèle Mailhot
translated by Neil B. Bishop
preface by Marie-Claire Blais

Veiled Countries/Lives

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Michael Harris

Dürer's Angel

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by David Lobdell

The Execution

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by David Lobdell