What is Marie-Claire Bancquart?
[[File:Mcbancquarttschann 20101019.JPG|right|200px]] '''Marie-Claire Bancquart''' (21 July 1932 &ndash; 19 February 2019) was a [[French people|French]] poet, essayist, professor emerita and literary critic. She was the recipient of the [[Grand prix de la Critique littéraire]] of the [[Académie Française]].<ref name=Cerise>{{cite web|last1=Cook|first1=Christina|title=Writing about the Concrete: Marie-Claire Bancquart|url=http://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/writing-about-the-concrete-marie-claire-bancquart/view-all|website=Cerise Press|access-date=June 3, 2015}}</ref> Her poetry was known for its [[visceral]] nature, often exploring the human body as a means of exploring emotion and humanity.<ref name=Brophy>{{cite journal|last1=Brophy|first1=Michael|title=In the Flesh of the Text: The Poetry of Marie-Claire Bancquart (Book)|journal=French Studies|date=January 2010|volume=64|issue=1|page=109|doi=10.1093/fs/knp225}}</ref> Bancquart was born in [[Aveyron]], [[France]]. In addition to her many volumes of poetry, Bancquart has also published books and essays on subjects such as [[surrealism]] and [[Anatole France]].<ref name=Wilson>{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Katharina M.|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers|date=1991|isbn=0-8240-8547-7|pages=75–76|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wf1SVbGFg8C&dq=marie-claire+bancquart+biography&pg=PA75|access-date=June 5, 2015}}</ref> Bancquart died in [[Paris]] from [[bone cancer]] on 19 February 2019, aged 86.<ref>[https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2019/02/28/la-mort-de-la-poete-marie-claire-bancquart_5429507_3382.html La mort de la poète Marie-Claire Bancquart] {{in lang|fr}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bancquart, Marie-Claire}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from bone cancer]] [[Category:French poets]] [[Category:French literary critics]] [[Category:French essayists]]