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.
Marie-Claire Blais s many works of fiction, poetry and playwriting include A Season in the Life of Emmanuel, which has been translated into 10 languages and is one of the most widely read Quebecois pieces of writing in the world. Blais died Nov. 30 in Florida.