About Irene Oore Irene Oore is the co-author of Marie-Claire Blais: An Annotated Bibliography. Born in Lódz, Poland, she immigrated to Israel as a child and is now a professor of French at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Books by Irene Oore The Listener In the Shadow of the Holocaust by (author) Irene Oore Marie-Claire Blais An Annotated Bibliography by (author) Irene Oore & Oriel C.L. MacLennan