Marie-Célie Agnant

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Marie-Célie Agnant is a Quebecois writer born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1953. She has lived in Quebec since 1970.

Author of poems, novels and novellas, she has also published children's books. She is also a storyteller and occasionally appears with the Bread & Puppet Theater of Vermont.

Her works have been translated into Spanish, English, Dutch, Italian and Korean.

She was nominated for a 1998 Governor General's Award for her book Le Silence comme le sang ("Silence like Blood").