Antonine maillet biography of barack

  • Antonine Maillet, CP, CC, OQ, is a novelist, playwright and translator who has published more than 50 works earning her several esteemed prizes.
  • Born on May 10, 1929, in Bouctouche, N.B., Maillet earned a PhD in literature in 1970 from Université Laval in Quebec City.
  • Antonine Maillet was born on May 10, 1929, in the village of Bouctouche, N.B., the eighth of nine children of Leonide Maillet and Virginie.

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    A member of New Brunswick's arts sector says the death of novelist, playwright and proud Acadian Antonine Maillet brings about a responsibility to keep her legacy alive.

    The internationally renowned Acadian died Monday in her Montreal home. She was 95.

    "It's a very sad day, but we are so grateful for everything that she has done," said Monique Poirier, executive and artistic director of Le Pays de la Sagouine, the theatrical village in Bouctouche, N.B., where Maillet was born in 1929.

    Le Pays de la Sagouine brings to life the characters Maillet created, including her famous La Sagouine. That play was first staged in 1971 with Viola Leger in the title role.

    Maillet shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron while being awarded the Legion of Honor at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Nov. 24, 2021. (Yoan Valat/The Associated Press)

    La Sagouine is just one of 20 novels and 12 plays Mai

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    Antonine Maillet

    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 Maillet, is a series of dramatic monologues that broke new ground in Canadian theatre and was performed internationally. Upon publication, it sold over 100 000 copies. The title character, an old Acadian washerwoman, embodies Acadian language and culture. The theme park, which celebrates the uniqueness of the Acadian dialect, culture and history, brings tens of thousands of visitors annually to a tiny town of less than 3000.

    Since the success of La Sagouine Maillet has published over thirty titles. A prolific and important Canadian, her work focuses on Acadian experiences both contemporary and historical and is written in Acadian

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    Biographical Notes

    Maillet, Antonine. "Biographical Notes". Antonine Maillet : fransk artikel trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures: Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures, edited by Wade McLauchlan, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2017, pp. 146-149. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780776625881-015

    Maillet, A. (2017). Biographical Notes. In W. McLauchlan (Ed.), Antonine Maillet : fransk artikel trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures: Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures (pp. 146-149). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780776625881-015

    Maillet, A. 2017. Biographical Notes. In: McLauchlan, W. ed. Antonine Maillet : Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures: fransk artikel trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures. Ottawa: University of huvudstad i kanada Press, pp. 146-149. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780776625881-015

    Maillet, Antonine. "Biographical Notes" In Antonine Maillet : fransk artikel trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures: Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures edited by Wade McLauchlan, 146-