The Hon. Antonine Maillet in 1984

Antonine Maillet, PC, CC, OQ, ONB, LL.D, FRSC, (born May 10, 1929) is a Canadian Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick and lives in Montreal, Quebec. Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright, & scholar, December 12, 1984 Copyright: National Archives of Canada: PA-182393 Photo by Harry Palmer Retrieved from http://www. ... Antonine Maillet, novelist, playwright, & scholar, December 12, 1984 Copyright: National Archives of Canada: PA-182393 Photo by Harry Palmer Retrieved from http://www. ... The Privy Council Office as it appeared in the 1880s The Queens Privy Council for Canada (French: Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada) is the council of advisers to the Queen of Canada, whose members are appointed by the Governor General of Canada for life on the... Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country (Hebrews 11. ... The National Order of Quebec (French: Ordre national du Québec) is an order of merit bestowed by the government of Quebec, Canada. ... The Order of New Brunswick, established in 2000, is the highest honour of the Province of New Brunswick. ... Doctor of Laws (Latin: Legum Doctor, LL.D) is a doctorate-level academic degree in law. ... The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia (located on the northern portion of North Americas east coast). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline, perhaps receiving financial support through a scholarship. ... Bouctouche is a town located in eastern New Brunswick, Canada, approximately 40 kilometres north of Moncton, and where the Bouctouche River empties into Northumberland Strait. ... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Official languages English, French (the only constitutionally bilingual province in the country) Government - Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson - Premier Shawn Graham (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 10 - Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... , Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Official languages French Government - Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Duchesne - Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 75 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area  Ranked 2nd - Total 1,542,056 km² (595...

Following high school, she received her BA from the Université de Moncton, followed by an MA from the same institution. She then received her PhD in literature in 1970 from the Université Laval. She taught literature and folklore at Laval, then in Montreal between 1971 to 1976. She later worked for Radio-Canada in Moncton as a script writer and host. A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... The Université de Moncton is a French language university in Moncton, New Brunswick serving the Acadian community of Atlantic Canada. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... Université Laval (Laval University) is the oldest centre of education in Canada, and was the first institution in America to offer higher education in French. ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... CBC redirects here, as this is the most common use of the abbreviation. ... For other uses, see Moncton (disambiguation). ...

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 Queen's Privy Council for Canada. Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country (Hebrews 11. ... The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... The Order of New Brunswick, established in 2000, is the highest honour of the Province of New Brunswick. ... The Privy Council Office as it appeared in the 1880s The Queens Privy Council for Canada (French: Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada) is the council of advisers to the Queen of Canada, whose members are appointed by the Governor General of Canada for life on the...

In 1979 her work Pélagie-la-Charrette won the Prix Goncourt, giving her the distinction of being the only non-European to be awarded the prize until that date. Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... The Prix Goncourt is the most prestigious prize in French literature, given to the author of the best and most imaginative prose work of the year. Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. ...

Antonine Maillet was born in 1929 in the Acadian community of Bouctouche, New Brunswick. In 1950, she received a B.A. from the Université de Moncton and, nine years later, completed an M.A. at the same institution, writing a thesis on Gabrielle Roy. She continued her studies at the Université Laval, earning a PhD in literature in 1970. Between 1971 and 1976, Antonine Maillet taught literature and folklore first at Laval and then at Montreal. Later, she worked for Radio-Canada in Moncton as a script writer and host. She is currently the chancellor of the Université de Moncton.

Antonine Maillet's academic and professional career was always accompanied by a fierce commitment to writing and storytelling. 1958, for instance, saw her play "Poire-acre" win a theatre festival award for the best Canadian play. That same year saw the publication of her first novel, Pointe-aux-Coques, which later won the Prix Champlain (1960). In 1960, she also won an award from the Canada Council for her play "Les jeux d'enfants sont faits." These works were followed in 1962 by the novel On a mangé la dune and the play "Les Crasseux" in 1968. Receiving Canada Council grants from 1962 to 1964 and 1969 to 1970, Maillet spent those years in Paris working on her writing and, later, her PhD dissertation which she completed in 1970. The dissertation, Rabelais et les traditions populaires en Acadie, was published in 1971 and catalogued over 500 archaic phrases and figures of speech from sixteenth-century French that are still used in the Acadian communities of Canada's eastern provinces.

Despite spending five years of the 1970s teaching university courses in literature and folklore, this period was the most prolific and successful of Antonine Maillet's career thus far. The first of her works published during this period was "La Sagouine" (1971). A series of dramatic monologues by an old Acadian washerwoman, "La Sagouine" earned rave reviews and was performed in both French and English throughout North America and Europe by Viola Leger. The written text also achieved tremendous success, selling over 100,000 copies. Most importantly though, "La Sagouine" broke new ground in Acadian writing in theatre; Maillet gave voice to the common person in her culture and brought to the foreground the unique dialect of her people which, as she revealed in her thesis, reveals in a striking way its sixteenth-century roots which over time had been "distorted by the climate and sharpened by the sea; by the salty air in the larynx and the obsessive beating of the waves in the ears." Her following work, the fantastic tale of Don L'Orignal (1972) also met with great success, winning the 1972 Governor General's Award for Fiction (French). That was followed in the same year by the story collection Par derrière chez mon père and in 1973 a personal and anecdotal travel guide entitled L'Acadie pour quasiment rien and the play "Gapi et Sullivan." The Honourable Viola Léger (born June 29, 1930) is a Acadian-Canadian actress and former Canadian Senator. ...

Also published in 1973 was Mariaagélas, a novel which tells the Prohibition-era story of a young woman who, ostracized by her community, turns to bootlegging to escape the misery of her supposed lot in life. Mariaagélas' rebellious refusal to be drawn into what society expects of her is echoed in the 1975 play "Évangéline Deusse" in which the protagonist asserts her independence through being a prostitute. While Évangéline may sell her body, she does so, ultimately, without ever selling herself. By not bowing to the mores of her society, she remains true to what she believes, despite the obvious contradictions of how she makes a living. 1975 also saw the publication of another novel, Emmanuel à Joseph à Davit. Her next major novel, though, was 1977's Les Cordes-De-Bois, which came close to winning that year's Prix Goncourt. Maillet did not have to wait long until her next chance at France's most prestigious prize, however, as it was awarded to her two years later for Pélagie-la-Charrette. This 1979 novel tells the story of the ten-year voyage of a group of Acadians returning to their homeland fifteen years after the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755. A moving and epic novel, Pélagie-la-Charrette has sold over one million copies and has been translated into a number of languages including English, Slovak, and Bulgarian. A sequel to Pélagie, entitled Cent ans dans les bois, was published in 1981.

During this period in which her fiction met with such great success, Antonine Maillet did not lessen her commitment to writing for the stage. In fact between 1977 and 1981 she published three new plays: "La Veuve enragée" (1977), "Le Bourgeois gentleman" (1978), "Le Contrebandière" (1981), which was essentially Mariaagélas rewritten as a play. In 1981, Maillet also wrote her first book especially for children, Christophe Cartier de la Noisette dit Nounours. Her next play, like "Le Bourgeois gentleman," was a inspired by a classic of French literature. Entitled "Les Drolatiques, Horrifiques et Épouvantables Aventures de Panurge, ami de Pantagruel" (1983), this play allowed Maillet to indulge her fascination with the work of Rabelais and its relevance to Acadian culture. While writing several more completely original plays during the 1980s and 1990s, including "Garrochés en paradis" (1986) and "Margot la folle" (1987), Maillet also produced more adaptations and translations of other literary works such as "William S." (1991), "La Fontaine ou la Comédie des animaux" (1995), Shakespeare's "Richard III" (1989) and "La Nuit des rois" (1993), and Ben Jonson's "La Foire de Saint-Barthélemy" (1994).

Over the last two decades, Maillet has remained a prolific writer of fiction, publishing five novels since 1984, among which are Crache à Pic (1984), which revisits the history of Acadian bootlegging and smuggling operations, and Le Huitième Jour (1986). L'Oursiade (1990) marked somewhat of a departure for Maillet with its anthropomorphizing focus on a community of black bears and their encounters with the people of the region. Nevertheless, L'Oursiade is a moving tale that offers a unique look at the theme of the Acadians' relation to their physical environment. Maillet followed this novel with Les Confessions de Jeanne de Valois (1992), a tour de force that consists entirely of the first-person narrative of a woman born in 1899 who, after having lived through nearly the entire twentieth century, aspires to witness the dawn of the new millennium. As Jeanne de Valois recounts her life story and shares her thoughts on everything from religion to the role of women in Acadian culture, it becomes clear to the reader that the voice of the author freely mingles with that of the character, continually blurring the line between biography and autobiography. Maillet's two most recent works of fiction bring back some of most popular characters in her fictional universe. Le Chemin Saint-Jacques (1996) marks the return of Radi, a character introduced in the 1962 novel On a mangé la dune, while L'Ile-aux-Puces (1996) is a collection of commérages or gossips in monologue and dialogue form from characters such as Mariaagélas and Gapi.

Aside from the Prix Goncourt (1979) and the Governor General's Award (1972), Antonine Maillet has received many honours, including the Grand Prix littéraire de la ville de Montréal (1973), Le Prix Québec-Paris (1975), and over twenty honorary doctorates. She has been named a Companion of the Order of Canada (1976), an Officier des Arts et des Lettres de France (1985), an Officer of the Ordre National du Québec (1990), and is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. She currently serves as the chancellor of the Université de Moncton.

Over the years, many of Antonine Maillet's works have appeared in English translation. These include The Tale of Don l'Orignal (1978), La Sagouine (1979), Pélagie (1982), The Devil is Loose! (1986), all three of which are available from Northwest Passages.

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
• Mariaagélas - 1973
• Gapi - 1976
• La Veuve enragée - 1977
• Les Cordes-de-bois - 1977
• Le Bourgeois Gentleman - 1978
• Pélagie-la-Charette - 1979 (winner of the Prix Goncourt)
• La Contrebandière - 1981
• Les Drolatiques, Horrifiques et Épouvantables Aventures de Panurge, ami de Pantagruel - 1981
• 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

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External links

• CBC Digital Archives – Antonine Maillet, Acadian Avenger