Marie-Claire Blais

Marie-Claire Blais CC OQ MSRC
Blais at the 2010 Montréal Book Fair
Born	(1939-10-05)5 October 1939 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Died	30 November 2021(2021-11-30) (aged 82) Key West, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Author, playwright
Nationality	Canadian
Education	Université de Montréal (2002–2003), Université de Montréal (1993–1997), Université Laval
Genre	Romance, theatre, screenplay, poetry, essay
Notable awards	Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Marie-Claire Blais CC OQ MSRC (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. 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.