About me
Marie-Célie Agnant is a writer, translator, and activist whose novels have been widely translated, including The Book of Emma (2004), which evokes the hardships endured by enslaved women in the Caribbean and the challenges to giving voice to this history today. She received the Prix Alain-Grandbois of the Academie des Lettres du Quebec in 2017 for her most recent collection of poetry, Femmes des terres brûlées (2016). Her critically acclaimed work offers poignant refusals of silence. She has worked with Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theatre, and in 2023 was appointed the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.