Antonine Maillet (1929- )

• novelist, short-story writer
• born in 1929 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick
• educated at the Université de Montréal and Université Laval, where she has taught literature and folklore
• foremost writer of Acadia
• first non-native of France to win the Prix Goncourt
• Novels:
  • Pointe-aux-Coques (1958)
  • La Sagouine (1971) (translated as The Slattern) sixteen monologues by the wife of an Acadian fisherman, often performed on stage
  • Pélagie---la Charrette (1972) (translated as Pélagie: the Return to a Homeland) the story of a group of Acadians who make their way back to their homeland after the expulsion to Louisiana in the 1750's, recieved the Prix Goncourt
  • Par derrière chez mon père (1972)
  • Don l'Original (1972) (translated as The Tale of Don l'Original, received the Governor General's Award
  • Gapi et Sullivan (1973)
  • Marriaagélas (1973)
  • Cent ans dans les bois (1981) set in 19th century New Brunswick
• more information on Bouctouche

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