– 2000 Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco – 2002 Matt Cohen Prize – 2006 References "Marie-Claire Blais" in Canadian Writers, an examination of archival manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, journals and notebooks at Library and Archives Canada Weightman, John (29 January 1960) "Fiction in France" Review section The Observer External links "Marie-Claire Blais" in The Canadian Encyclopedia Archives of Marie-Claire Blais (Fonds Marie-Claire Blais, R11710) are held at Library and Archives Canada 1939 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian lesbian writers Canadian LGBT novelists Canadian novelists in French Canadian women novelists Companions of the Order of Canada Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada French Quebecers Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers Canadian LGBT dramatists and playwrights Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique Officers of the National Order of Quebec Officers of the Order of Cultural Merit (Monaco) Prix Athanase-David winners Prix Médicis winners Université Laval alumni Writers from Quebec City Canadian expatriate writers in the United States Lesbian dramatists and playwrights Lesbian novelists