Born 1939 · Canada
Governor General's (French) 2010 · Finalist
Mai au bal des prédateurs
Marie-Claire Blais · 71 when first published
Novel · 256 pages · Soifs, book 5
AI-generated summary:Every night at the Saloon, a troupe of young men transform themselves into dream creatures in colourful gowns and wigs, singing and dancing for the excluded and rejected; among them Yinn, and around them a sheltered girl named Mai.
Governor General's (French) 2008 · Winner
Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments
Marie-Claire Blais · 69 when first published
Novel · 216 pages · Politics · Soifs, book 4
AI-generated summary:In the American South, the characters of the Soifs cycle return in a vast chorus of interior voices, and this time the fight between good and evil plays out inside each of them, as a birth brings the fate of the world into play again.
Governor General's (French) 2005 · Finalist
Augustino et le chœur de la destruction
Marie-Claire Blais · 66 when first published
Novel · 232 pages · Politics · Soifs, book 3
AI-generated summary:On an island in the Gulf of Mexico, a crowd of characters, rich and poor, artists and petty criminals, cross paths, among them Augustino, a boy writer who senses the forces of destruction at the heart of his daily life.
Governor General's (French) 2001 · Finalist
Dans la foudre et la lumière
Marie-Claire Blais · 62 when first published
Novel · 188 pages · Politics · Soifs, book 2
AI-generated summary:In 1999, on a small island in the American South resembling Key West, a hundred or so people, from a young pilot pushed by her parents to a homeless visionary roaming Manhattan, live their lives in one long stream of voices.