Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais,  (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright. She wrote novels, plays, poetry, newspaper articles, radio dramas, and scripts for television. Some of her works included La Belle Bête (1959), The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange (1968), Deaf to the City (1979), and a ten-volume series Soifs written between 1995 and 2018.