Marie-Célie Agnant

Béatrice Vernier (Lakehead University)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 1953
Activity 1994-ongoing

Places

Born in Haiti
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

French Canadian

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet

Resources

Agnant's Works

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Marie-Célie Agnant is a French writer born in Haiti who has been living in Quebec since 1970. Her work is characterized by a wide range of written forms: novels, poems, short stories, tales and children’s books. By focusing on the history of Haiti, Agnant addresses the problem of human oppression, the importance of transmitting culture from one generation to the next, and the struggle of women to speak and be heard. Marie-Célie Agnant is one of many authors who have contributed to black francophone writing in Quebec. Throughout her career, she has received many prizes and awards (see note 1) and has been translated into Catalan, Dutch, English, Italian, Korean and Castilian.

Born in Port-au-Prince in 1953, she was sent at the age of fifteen to live with her godmother who was already

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Citation: Vernier, Béatrice. "Marie-Célie Agnant". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 November 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13685, accessed 24 November 2024.]