WRITER

Marie-Claire Blais

1939 - 2021

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Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie-Claire Blais has received more than 94,841 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Marie-Claire Blais is the 4,109th most popular writer (down from 3,014th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Canada (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Canadian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 95k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Manuscrits de Pauline Archange
Canadian fiction, Fiction, Women authors
1968
Belle bête
Fiction, general
1960
Le loup
1972
Tête Blanche
1960
Joualonais, sa joualonie
Fiction, Good and evil, Alienation (Social psychology)
1974
Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
French-Canadian literature, Fiction, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall
1965

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 4,109 out of 7,302. Before her are Johann Fischart, Alexander of Abonoteichus, Ahmed Rami, Emanuel Geibel, Berta Zuckerkandl, and Marietta Shaginyan. After her are Mona Simpson, Johann Georg von Hahn, Lisa Tetzner, Ngaio Marsh, Ō no Yasumaro, and Barthold Heinrich Brockes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 318. Before her are David Frost, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Abdelmajid Chetali, Lidiya Skoblikova, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, and Livio Berruti. After her are Carlos Alberto Silva, Jacek Gmoch, Dixie Carter, Joel-Peter Witkin, Yaakov Neeman, and Luigi Simoni. Among people deceased in 2021, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 301. Before her are Mustafa Ben Halim, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Tarcísio Meira, Pat Martino, Ronald DeFeo Jr., and John Warner. After her are Chris Dickerson, Medea Abrahamyan, Kalyan Singh, Vassilis Alexakis, Sanpei Shirato, and Dragan Pantelić.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 278 out of 1,622. Before her are Roberta Bondar (1945), John Draper (1943), Paul Haggis (1953), Gordon Lightfoot (1938), Lothaire Bluteau (1957), and Henri Richard (1936). After her are Deborah Kara Unger (1966), David Johnston (1941), Patricia Churchland (1943), Bobby Orr (1948), André Bessette (1845), and Joe Clark (1939).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Marie-Claire Blais ranks 16. Before her are Gabrielle Roy (1909), Mazo de la Roche (1879), Louise Penny (1958), David Shore (1959), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), and Anne Hébert (1916). After her are Robin Sharma (1965), Mordecai Richler (1931), Laurence J. Peter (1919), Duncan Regehr (1952), Émile Nelligan (1879), and Nancy Huston (1953).

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