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Antonine Maillet. PC CC OQ ONB FRSC. Born. (1929-05-10) May 10, 1929 (age 95) Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada. Occupation (s) Writer, scholar. 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)a historian, Maillet clearly shaped a number of her major works from the view-point of what Pierre Trtpanier has recently called "le petit peuple et ses representations du monde".8 While she shares with "l'6cole n6o-nationaliste" a concern about "la domination 6conomique (et) l'oppression nationale", she is
Maillet is a Companion of the Order of Canada, an Officier des Arts et des Lettres de France, a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and a 2005 inductee into the Order of New Brunswick. Maillet is an indomitable storyteller and an earnest ambassador for the Acadian people. She lives in Montréal, Québec. (Marlene Wurfel)
Antonine Maillet: Conteuse de l’Acadie ou l’encre de l’aède. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011. Boudreau, Shirley, et al. Derrière la charrette de Pélagie: Lecture Analytique du Roman d’Antonine Maillet, Pélagie-la-Charrette. Pointe de l’Eglise, NS: Presse de L’Université Sainte-Anne, 1984. Bourque, Denis.
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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On. ne saurait trop insister sur l’apport d’Antonine Maillet à l’émergence de la littérature acadienne contemporaine. Sans elle, le corpus d’œuvres qui composent cette littéra-ture serait de beaucoup réduit et celle-ci n’aurait pas connu le dyna-misme qu’on lui connaît. Maillet débute sa carrière d’écrivaine avec la ...
