Marie-Célie Agnant

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

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, Catalan 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]

See also

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets
• List of Canadian writers

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