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Antonine Maillet

Canadian writer

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Acadian literature

In New Brunswick: The arts
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.
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French-Canadian literature

In Canadian literature: The Quiet Revolution of French Canadian minorities
New Brunswick novelist and playwright Antonine Maillet played an important role in the evolution of modern Acadian literature. Creator of the immortal Acadian charwoman La Sagouine in the play by the same name (1971; Eng. trans. La Sagouine; “The Slattern”) and recipient of the Prix Goncourt for Pélagie-la-charrette (1979; Pélagie:…
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