Marie-Célie Agnant (born in
Port-au-Prince
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,
Haiti
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in 1953) is an author who has been living in
Quebec
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,
Canada
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, since 1970. In 2023, she was appointed the tenth
Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
[Appointment of the 10th Parliamentary Poet Laureate]
at the Senate of Canada
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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
Vermont
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. Her works have been translated into
Spanish
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, English,
Dutch,
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,
Catalan and
Korean
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. Her books include ''Silence Like Blood'' (''Le Silence comme le sang'', 1997), which was nominated for the
1998 Governor General's Award
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, and ''La Dot de Sara''.
See also
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Canadian literature
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Canadian poetry
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List of Canadian poets
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List of Canadian writers
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