Marie-Célie Agnant

Marie-Célie Agnant (born 1953, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is an author who has been living in Canada since 1970.[1] In 2023, she was appointed the tenth Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.[2]

Agnant at the Olivieri Bookstore in Canada

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. Her works have been translated into Spanish, English, Dutch, Italian and Korean. Her books include Silence Like Blood, (Le Silence comme le sang 1997), which was nominated for the 1998 Governor General's Award, and La Dot de Sara.[3]

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References
  1. "HaitiAnalysis.com Marie-Celie Agnant Speaks On Her New Book". haitianalysis.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  2. Appointment of the 10th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, at the Senate of Canada; published February 8, 2023; retrieved February 26, 2023
  3. Proulx, Patrice J. (2005-03-22). "Bearing witness and transmitting memory in the works of Marie-Celie Agnant". Quebec Studies. American Council for Quebec Studies. 39: 35–54. doi:10.3828/qs.39.1.35.
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