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Antonine Maillet, PC CC OQ ONB FRSC (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tɔnin majɛ]; born May 10, 1929) is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche , New Brunswick , Canada.
- Education and Early Career
- A Dominant Force in Acadian Literature
- Honours
Antonine Maillet earned a BA (1950) from the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie, an MA (1959) from the Université de Moncton, and a PhD in literature from Université Laval in 1970, where she then taught literature and folklore. She has also taught at the Université de Montréal, the University of California, Berkeley, the University at Albany, State Univer...
After the success of her play La Sagouine (1971; tr. 1979) and the novel Pélagie-la-Charrette (1979), which charts the triumphant return home of the Acadian people after the 1755 expulsion, or le Grand Dérangement (seeHistory of Acadia), Maillet dominated contemporary Acadian literature. The latter won the Prix Goncourt, bringing her overnight fame...
Canada Council Prize (Les Jeux d’enfants sont faits)(1960)Prix Champlain (francophonie nord-américaine hors Québec) (1961)Governor General’s Award (1972)Grand prix du livre de Montréal (1973)Biography. Antonine Maillet is generally recognized as being one half of the literary impetus for the Acadian Renaissance of the early 1970s. (The other half is Ronald Després, who, like Maillet, published his first work in 1958.) Born in Bouctouche, NB in 1929, Maillet attended schools in and around Moncton, then did graduate work at ...
Feb 7, 2006 · Pélagie-la-Charrette (1979), by Antonine Maillet, narrates the epic journey of the widow Pélagie LeBlanc, who in the late 1770s leads her Acadian people back to Grand Pré from the American South, where they had been deported in 1755. Hers is a double odyssey - the "people of the carts" are haunted by the phantom cart, the cart of death associated with Bélonie, the aging raconteur who ...
Cormier (Maillet's mother's name) about a year she spent in a New Brunswick fishing village. This book, which first saw her use elements of the Acadian dialect, won the Prix Champlain. Shortly after, she left her religious order. Maillet pursued her stage writing with Les Crasseux* written in 1966 and pub-lished two years later.
Dec 1, 2021 · Posted on Wednesday December 01, 2021. Antonine Maillet: A hard worker who is still young at heart and in spirit. Goncourt Prize-winning writer, rebel dreamer and activist for the protection of the history of her beloved Acadie, Antonine Maillet needs no introduction. At 92, this extraordinary woman is still writing and is as lively as she is ...
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Antonine Maillet – novelist and playwright – is the foremost voice in literature from the French-speaking Acadian East Coast of Canada. Her hometown of Bouctouche (pronounced buck-toosh), New Brunswick, boasts "Le Pays de La Sagouine," a tourist theme park based on Maillet’s award-winning La Sagouine (1971). La Sagouine, by Antonine ...
