Marie-Célie Agnant (born in

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in 1953) is an author who has been living in

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, since 1970. In 2023, she was appointed the tenth Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.Appointment of the 10th Parliamentary Poet Laureate
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; published February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 26, 2023. Agnant is a writer of poems, novels and novellas, and she has also published children's books. She is also a storyteller and occasionally appears with the Bread & Puppet Theater of

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. Her works have been translated into

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, English, Dutch,

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. Her books include ''Silence Like Blood'' (''Le Silence comme le sang'', 1997), which was nominated for the

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, and ''La Dot de Sara''.

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