A lighthouse goes out but the voice remains: Memories of Antonine Maillet

To invoke the work of Antonine Maillet in a single chronicle is not a thin task because her literary career is immense and exceptional. Among the forty works that she leaves us as an inheritance, there is of course Pélagie-la-Charrette (Goncourt Prize), La Sagouine or Don L-Orignal crowned with the Governor General's Literary Prize, but what about the rest of her work? To achieve this, I called upon a specialist Marie-Linda Lord who agreed to sh…

Editor’s note: The editorial board of Coop Média NB is saddened by the departure of Acadian author Antonine Maillet, born May 10, 1929, in Bouctouche and died February 17, 2025, in Montreal. The great lady of Acadian letters leaves a prodigious legacy to her people. “There is something in […]