Marie-Claire Blais

Born in 1939 in Québec, Marie-Claire Blais continues to dominate the literary landscape. Having published her first novel at the age of twenty, she has gone on to publish twenty novels to date in France and Quebec—all of which have been translated into English—as well as five plays and several collections of poetry. All of her writings have met with international acclaim.Talon has published her American Notebooks, a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer.Winner of the Prix Médicis, the Prix Belgo-Canadien, the Prix France-Québec, and many others, Blais continues to devote herself to work that is proud and exacting. Most recently, she has been invited, as one of the very few foreigners allowed, to join Belgium’s Academy of French Language and Literature.

Books by Marie-Claire Blais

Nights Too Short to Dance

Songs for Angel

A Twilight Celebration

These Festive Nights

Thunder and Light

The Acacia Gardens

American Notebooks

Nothing for You Here, Young Man

Mai at the Predators' Ball

Anna's World

The Cashier

Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom

The Collected Stage Drama of Marie-Claire Blais

Mad Shadows

Wolf

Deaf to the City

Nights in the Underground

Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

Exile & The Sacred Travellers, The

Wintersleep

The Angel of Solitude

Death of the Spider

Veiled Countries/Lives

The Execution

Dürer's Angel