Marie-Célie Agnant

{{Short description|Haitian-born Canadian writer (born 1953)}}

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| known_for = Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate

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Marie-Célie Agnant (born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1953) is an author who has been living in Quebec, Canada, since 1970.{{cite web|url=http://haitianalysis.com/2008/6/12/marie-celie-agnant-speaks-on-her-new-book|title=HaitiAnalysis.com Marie-Celie Agnant Speaks On Her New Book|publisher=haitianalysis.com|first=Wadner|last=Pierre|date= June 13, 2008|access-date=2010-01-22|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718215151/http://haitianalysis.com/2008/6/12/marie-celie-agnant-speaks-on-her-new-book|archivedate=2011-07-18}} In 2023, she was appointed the tenth Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate.[https://sencanada.ca/en/newsroom/appointment-of-the-10th-parliamentary-poet-laureate/ Appointment of the 10th Parliamentary Poet Laureate], at the Senate of Canada; published February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 26, 2023.

Agnant is a writer of poems, novels and novellas, and she has also published children's books. She is also a storyteller and occasionally appears with the Bread & Puppet Theater of Vermont. Her works have been translated into Spanish, English, Dutch, Italian, Catalan and Korean. Her books include Silence Like Blood (Le Silence comme le sang, 1997), which was nominated for the 1998 Governor General's Award, and La Dot de Sara.{{cite journal|last=Proulx|first=Patrice J.|date=2005-03-22|title=Bearing witness and transmitting memory in the works of Marie-Celie Agnant.|journal=Quebec Studies|publisher=American Council for Quebec Studies|volume=39|pages=35–54|doi=10.3828/qs.39.1.35}}