Antonine Maillet
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Antonine Maillet, PC, CC, OQ, ONB, LL.D, FRSC, (born May 10, 1929) is a Canadian Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick and lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Following high school, she received her BA from the Université de Moncton, followed by an MA from the same institution. She then received her PhD in literature in 1970 from the Université Laval. She taught literature and folklore at Laval, then in Montreal between 1971 to 1976. She later worked for Radio-Canada in Moncton as a script writer and host.
In 1976 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1981. Maillet was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1980. In 1985 she was made an Officier des Arts et des Lettres de France and in 2005 she was inducted into the Order of New Brunswick. She is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
In 1979 her work Pélagie-la-Charette won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, giving her the distinction of being the only non-European to be awarded the prize.
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- Pointe-aux-Coques - 1958
- On a mangé la dune - 1962
- Les Crasseux - 1968
- La Sagouine - 1971
- Rabelais et les traditions populaires en Acadie - 1971
- Don l'Orignal - 1972 (winner of the (1972 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
- Par derrière chez mon père - 1972
- Gapi et Sullivan - 1973
- Mariaagélas - 1973
- Gapi - 1976
- La Veuve enragée - 1977
- Les Cordes-de-bois - 1977
- Le Bourgeois Gentleman - 1978
- Pélagie-la-Charette - 1979 (winner of the Prix Goncourt)
- La Contrebandière - 1981
- Les Drolatiques, Horrifiques et Épouvantables Aventures de Panurge, ami de Pantagruel - 1981
- Garrochés en paradis - 1986
- Le Huitième Jour - 1986
- Margot la folle - 1987
- L'Oursiade - 1990
- William S. - 1991
- Les Confessions de Jeanne de Valois - 1992
- La Nuit des rois - 1993
- La Fontaine ou la Comédie des animaux - 1995
- Le Chemin Saint-Jacques - 1996
- L'Île-aux-Puces - 1996
- Chronique d'une sorcière de vent 1999
- Madame Perfecta - 2002
See also: List of French Canadian writers from outside Quebec, List of Quebec authors
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Categories: 1929 births | Living people | Acadia | Canadian dramatists and playwrights | Canadian novelists | Companions of the Order of Canada | Prix Goncourt winners | Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada | Officers of the National Order of Quebec | People from Kent County, New Brunswick | People from Moncton | Acadians | Canadian writers in French | Members of the Order of New Brunswick
