- Antonine Maillet was born on May 10, 1929 in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada. She was a writer, known for Séraphin: Heart of Stone (2002), Gapi (1982) and La sagouine (1975). She died on February 17, 2025 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Acadian Writer
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 134, pages 324-331. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- She was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on December 15, 1976 and the C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) on December 14, 1981 for her services to Canadian French Literature.
- Lived on a street named in her honor in Outremont, Québec, Canada.
- Maillet taught literature and folklore at the college Notre-Dame d'Acadie (1954-1960); at the University of Moncton (1965-1967); at the Collège des Jésuites de Québec (1968-1969); at the Université Laval (1971-1974); then at the Université de Montréal between (1974-1975).
- Antonine Maillet was also named an honorary citizen of the City of Montreal in 2020 by Mayor Valérie Plante, who wished to highlight the mark left by "a great woman of letters, a literary icon" in the culture, history and memory of the metropolis - "the metropolis of all French-speaking people in North America".
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