About Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. She was a four-time recipient of the Governor General’s literary prize for French-Canadian literature, and was also a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts. Blais published her first novel La Belle Bête (translated as Mad Shadows) in 1959, when she turned 20. During this time, Blais was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships. Blais won the Governor General's Prize in Canada for two of her novels, The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange (1968) and Deaf to the City (1979). Hussain won the Director's Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival for his work.
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