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Antonine Maillet, PC CC OQ ONB FRSC (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tɔnin majɛ]; born May 10, 1929) is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada.
A Companion of the Order of Canada, the first non-European recipient of the Prix Goncourt, and winner of the Governor General’s Award, Antonine Maillet has been called "the soul of contemporary Acadian literature.”.
Antonine Maillet, née le 10 mai 1929 à Bouctouche, au Nouveau-Brunswick ( Canada ), est une romancière et dramaturge acadienne. Ses œuvres les plus connues sont la pièce La Sagouine et le roman Pélagie-la-Charrette .
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).
Antonine Maillet, an Acadian novelist and playwright from Bouctouche, achieved international recognition for her writing in French, which strikingly reveals the 17th-century idiom and structure of the language as spoken by today’s Acadians. Read More. French-Canadian literature.
Antonine Maillet is generally recognized as being one half of the literary impetus for the Acadian Renaissance of the early 1970s. (The other half is Ronald Després, who, like Maillet, published his first work in 1958.)
Antonine Maillet est une romancière et dramaturge canadienne. Après son baccalauréat, elle entre à la Congrégation Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur, et elle commence à enseigner. En 1960 elle quitte la congrégation pour reprendre les études.
