Marie-Célie Agnant
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Marie-Célie Agnant (born 1953, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is an author who has been living in Canada since 1970.[1] In 2023, she was appointed the tenth Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.[2]
Agnant is a writer of poems, novels and novellas, and 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. Her books include Silence Like Blood, (Le Silence comme le sang 1997), which was nominated for the 1998 Governor General's Award, and La Dot de Sara.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "HaitiAnalysis.com Marie-Celie Agnant Speaks On Her New Book". haitianalysis.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
- ^ Appointment of the 10th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, at the Senate of Canada; published February 8, 2023; retrieved February 26, 2023
- ^ Proulx, Patrice J. (2005-03-22). "Bearing witness and transmitting memory in the works of Marie-Celie Agnant". Quebec Studies. 39. American Council for Quebec Studies: 35–54. doi:10.3828/qs.39.1.35.
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- Prix Alain-Grandbois
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women poets
- Canadian poets in French
- Haitian emigrants to Canada
- Haitian women novelists
- 20th-century Haitian novelists
- 20th-century Haitian poets
- Haitian women short story writers
- Haitian short story writers
- Writers from Port-au-Prince
- 1953 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- Canadian women short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian novelists in French
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- Haitian women poets
- Canadian Parliamentary Poets Laureate
- Canadian poet stubs