Antonine Maillet
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Antonine MailletTemplate:Efn Template:Post-nominals (10 May 1929 – 17 February 2025) was an Acadian novelist, playwright and scholar.
Early life and education
Maillet was born on 10 May 1929 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick<ref name=":1">"Antonine Maillet." Paroles d'Acadie : Anthologie de la littérature acadienne (1958-2009), edited by David Lonergan, Prise de paroles, pp. 41-68.</ref> as one of nine children in her family.<ref name=":2" /> Her mother died when she was 14 and her father died 10 years after.<ref name=":2" /> Following high school, Maillet received her BA from the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in 1950,<ref name=":1" /> followed by an MA from the Université de Moncton in 1959.<ref name=":1" /> She then received her PhD in literature in 1971 from the Université Laval. Her thesis is entitled Rabelais et les traditions populaires en Acadie.<ref name=":0">Bottos, Katia. Antonine Maillet conteuse de l'Acadie ou l'encre de l'aède. L'Harmattan, 2011.</ref><ref>Buck, Claire (1992). Bloomsbury guide to women's literature. London: Bloomsbury. Template:ISBN. OCLC 185786618.</ref>
Career
Maillet taught literature and folklore at the collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie (1954–1960), the Université de Moncton (1965–1967), the Collège des Jésuites de Québec (1968–1969), the Université Laval (1971–1974), and the Université de Montréal between (1974–1975).<ref name=":1" /> She later worked for Radio-Canada in Moncton as a scriptwriter and host. In 1988, Maillet hosted the French-language Leaders' Debate for Radio-Canada TV between Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Liberal Party of Canada Leader John Turner, and New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent. From 1989 to 2000, she served as chancellor of the Université de Moncton.
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 was a member of the King's Privy Council for Canada from 1 July 1992. This gave her the right to the honorific prefix "The Honourable" and the Post Nominal Letters "PC" for Life. In 1979 her work Pélagie-la-Charrette won the Prix Goncourt, making her the first non-European recipient.<ref name=":2" /> This book was written in the Acadian vernacular known as "chiac".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1994, the Collège Militaire Royal theatre group performed in a play by Maillet both at CMR and at Royal Military College of Canada. Maillet was granted an Honorary Degree from RMC in 1995.
Personal life and death
In 2022, Maillet publicly came out as a lesbian, having been in a relationship with actress and theatre director Mercedes Palomino until her death in 2006.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Maillet died in her sleep during the night of 17 February 2025, at her home in Montreal. She was 95.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Selected works
- 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
- L'Acadie pour quasiment rien – 1973
- Mariaagélas – 1973
- Évangéline Deusse – 1975
- Gapi – 1976
- La veuve enragée – 1977
- Les Cordes-de-bois – 1977
- Le Bourgeois Gentleman – 1978
- Pélagie-la-Charrette – 1979 (winner of the Prix Goncourt)
- Cent ans dans les bois – 1981
- Christophe Cartier de la Noisette dit Nounours, conte jeunesse illustré par Hans Troxler
- La Contrebandière – 1981
- Les drolatiques, horrifiques et épouvantables aventures de Panurge, ami de Pantagruel – 1981
- La Gribouille – 1982
- Crache à pic – 1984
- 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
- Le temps me dure – 2003
- Pierre Bleu – 2006
- Le Mystérieux Voyage de Rien – 2009
- Fais confiance à la mer, elle te portera – 2010
See also
Notes
References
External links
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- Antonine Maillet Profile at Government of Canada
- CBC Digital Archives – Antonine Maillet, Acadian Avenger
- La Sagouine, Acadian tourist attraction
- Antonine Maillet - The Possibilities Are Endless (Trailer), National Film Board of Canada
- Antonine Maillet, Novelist - Cover story, Atlantic Insight Magazine, July 1980
- Article at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
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- 1929 births
- 2025 deaths
- Acadian writers
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- Companions of the Order of Canada
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Governor General's Award–winning fiction writers
- Members of the Order of New Brunswick
- Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
- Officers of the National Order of Quebec
- Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- People from Bouctouche
- Prix Goncourt winners
- Université Laval alumni
- Writers from Moncton
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian women novelists
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- French-language Canadian novelists
- French-language Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- Lesbian novelists
- Lesbian dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian lesbian writers
- Canadian LGBTQ novelists
- Canadian LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- Novelists from New Brunswick
- Chancellors of the Université de Moncton