What is Marie-Claire Blais?
{{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]]. --> | name = Marie-Claire Blais | image = Marie-Claire Blais 2010.jpg | alt = | caption = Blais at the 2010 Montréal Book Fair | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1939|10|5}} | birth_place = [[Quebec City|Québec]], [[Quebec|Québec]], Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2021|11|30|1939|10|5}} | death_place = [[Key West, Florida]], U.S. | resting_place = | occupation = Author, playwright | language = | nationality = Canadian | citizenship = | education = Université de Montréal (2002–2003), Université de Montréal (1993–1997), Université Laval | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Romance, theater, screenplay, poetry, essay | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!-- www.example.com --> | portaldisp = }} '''Marie-Claire Blais''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OQ|MSRC}} (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright. She wrote novels, [[Play (theatre)|plays]], [[poetry]], newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. Some of her works included ''[[La Belle Bête]]'' (1959)'', The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange'' (1968)'', Deaf to the City'' (1979), and a ten-volume series ''Soifs'' written between 1995 and 2018. Blais died 30 November 2021, in [[Key West]], [[Florida]] at the age of 82.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Girard-Bossé|first1=Alice|title=L'écrivaine Marie-Claire Blais n'est plus|url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2021-11-30/l-ecrivaine-marie-claire-blais-n-est-plus.php|newspaper=La Presse|language=fr|date=30 November 2021|access-date=1 December 2021|archive-date=