A Knife in the Sky

A poet, short story writer, young adult fiction writer, storyteller, and novelist, Marie-Célie Agnant has published seventeen books. Her work has been published in Québec, France, and Haiti, and translated into many languages. Her collection of short stories Le silence comme le sang (Remue-Ménage, 1997) was a finalist for the Governor General’s prize for fiction, she has won the Prix Gros Sel for her children’s book La légende du poisson amoureux (2007), the SODEP prose creation prize for “Sofialorène, si loin de la délivrance,” and the prestigious Prix Alain-Grandbois for her third collection of poems Femmes des terres brûlées (Éditions Pleine Lune, 2016).