Marie-Claire Blais CC OQ MSRC (5 October 1939 â 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of QuĂ©bec. 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 Generalâs literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative artâŠ
