Antonine Maillet

Antonine Maillet (1929-2025), born in Bouctouche in New Brunswick to two schoolteachers, entered religious life and returned to lay life in 1968. She received her doctorate from Université Laval in 1970 with a thesis on Rabelais and popular traditions in Acadia, and in 1979 she received the Prix Goncourt for a novel on the Acadians' return from exile, the first non-European laureate. The first woman chancellor of the Université de Moncton, from 1989 to the early two thousands, she died in Montreal.

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• TheatreLa SagouineAntonine Maillet · 1971Literature