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Marie-Claire Blais

1939 - 2021

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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 seventy 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 works included La Belle Bête (1959), The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange (1968), Deaf to the City (1979), and a ten-volume series Soifs written between 1995 and 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie-Claire Blais is the 3,861st most popular writer (up from 4,109th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 279th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Canadian Writer.

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Among writers, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 3,861 out of 7,302. Before her are Konstantin Fedin, Greg Bear, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Frédéric Beigbeder, and Edmonde Charles-Roux. After her are David Brin, José Emilio Pacheco, Lui Morais, Jean-Christophe Grangé, Hella Wuolijoki, and Lina Sandell.

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Among people born in 1939, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 299. Before her are Peter Mayle, Mike Castle, Roy Buchanan, James Galway, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, and Renate Boy. After her are José Emilio Pacheco, Len Cariou, Nông Đức Mạnh, Yury Glazkov, Robert Darnton, and Janet Suzman. Among people deceased in 2021, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 290. Before her are Carmen Salinas, Bernd Kannenberg, Peter R. de Vries, Carlyle Glean, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, and Charles Konan Banny. After her are Jan de Vries, Puneeth Rajkumar, Giuseppe Rotunno, Friederike Mayröcker, Alfreda Markowska, and Hana Hegerová.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 292 out of 1,622. Before her are Emily Carr (1871), Alan Thicke (1947), George Lawrence Price (1892), Alissa White-Gluz (1985), Elias Koteas (1961), and John Diefenbaker (1895). After her are Len Cariou (1939), Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879), David H. Levy (1948), Betty Taylor (1916), Stana Katic (1978), and Stephen McHattie (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 14. Before her are Brian Tracy (1944), Antonine Maillet (1929), Shulamith Firestone (1945), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), Harold Russell (1914), and Gabrielle Roy (1909). After her are Anne Hébert (1916), David Shore (1959), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), Louise Penny (1958), Naomi Klein (1970), and Émile Nelligan (1879).

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