Marie-Claire Blais, acclaimed French Canadian novelist, dies at 82

Marie-Claire Blais, a novelist whose long, elliptical sentences and incisive explorations of human consciousness won her comparisons with Virginia Woolf and a place alongside Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood as one of Canada's greatest contemporary writers, died Nov. 30 at her home in Key West, Florida. She was 82.

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