Antonine Maillet

The Honourable
Antonine Maillet
PC CC OQ ONB FRSC
The Honourable Antonine Maillet PC CC OQ ONB FRSC
Born	May 10, 1929 (age 95); Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada
Occupation(s)	Writer, scholar

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.^[1]

Education

Following high school, Maillet received her BA from the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in 1950,^[1] followed by an MA from the Université de Moncton in 1959.^[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.^[2]^[3]

Career

Maillet taught literature and folklore at the college Notre-Dame d'Acadie (1954-1960); at the University of Moncton (1965-1967); at the Collège des Jésuites de Québec (1968-1969); at the Université Laval (1971-1974); then at the Université de Montréal between (1974-1975).^[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 is a member of the King's Privy Council for Canada since 1 July 1992. This gives 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. In 1994, the College 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.

Bouctouche vers 1930.

Personal life

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.^[4]

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Antonine Maillet." Paroles d'Acadie : Anthologie de la littérature acadienne (1958-2009), edited by David Lonergan, Prise de paroles, pp. 41-68.
^ Bottos, Katia. Antonine Maillet conteuse de l'Acadie ou l'encre de l'aède. L'Harmattan, 2011.
^ Buck, Claire (1992). Bloomsbury guide to women's literature. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-0895-3. OCLC 185786618.
^ Revert, Amélie (25 November 2022). "Sur vos écrans: des rencontres en forme de portrait". Le Devoir (in French).

External links

[:1-1] "Antonine Maillet." Paroles d'Acadie : Anthologie de la littérature acadienne (1958-2009), edited by David Lonergan, Prise de paroles, pp. 41-68.

[:0-2] Bottos, Katia. Antonine Maillet conteuse de l'Acadie ou l'encre de l'aède. L'Harmattan, 2011.

[3] Buck, Claire (1992). Bloomsbury guide to women's literature. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-0895-3. OCLC 185786618.

[4] Revert, Amélie (25 November 2022). "Sur vos écrans: des rencontres en forme de portrait". Le Devoir (in French).

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