Marie-Claire Blais



         


Marie-Claire Blais is a Canadian author. She was born 1939 in Québec, Canada. Her early education consisted of courses at Laval University. She then won two Guggenheim Fellowships. She published her first novel, La Belle bête in 1959 when she turned 20. She has since written over 20 novels, 5 plays, collections of poetry and fiction, as well newspaper articles. Her works have been translated into multiple languages, including English and Chinese.

Much of Blais' writing has been in the form of social commentary, with intermixed elements of good and evil in settings part real, and part fantasy. Her works lean toward the tragic, within a hostile society of vice and violence. The strength of Blais' writing ability is rewarding to the reader in spite of the darker aspects of her themes.

In 1963, Blais moved to the United States, initially living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later she relocated to Wellfleet on Cape Cod. By 1975, after staying in Brittany for two years, she moved back to Québec, Canada. For about twenty years she then spent her time in Québec and Key West, Florida.

Her works Le Sourd dans la ville and Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel have been adapted for the cinema.

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