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MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS (1939-2001) was the internationally revered
author of more than twenty-five books, many of which have been
published around the world. In addition to the Governor General's
Literary Award for Fiction, which she won four times, Blais was
awarded the Gilles-Corbeil Prize, the Médicis Prize, the Molson
Prize, and Guggenheim Fellowships. She divided her time between Key
West, Florida, and Quebec.
Nigel Spencer is Marie-Claire Blais’ longtime translator and a
three-time Governor General's Literary Award winner. He lives in
Montreal, Quebec.
Blais is a writer attuned — there should be a stronger word — to
our times . . . Readers will be stunned and startled by Blais’
prose. Her characters, each an international mix of intellect,
passion, and problems, are constructed with wisdom and
compassion.
*Quill and Quire*
The inconsolable vision of the human condition expresses itself in
powerful poetic prose, with a sort of multi-voice delirium that
becomes an incantation, a prayer almost, and that attains
hallucinatory dramatic density . . . We are with a writer at the
far reaches of language, in the dazzling fracas of beauty.
*La Presse*
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