Actor
Antonine Maillet
May 10, 1929 · Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada
Antonine Maillet (May 10, 1929 - February 17, 2025) was an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada.
Following high school, Maillet received her BA from the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in 1950, followed by an MA from the Université de Moncton in 1959. She then received her PhD in literature in 1971 from the Université Laval. Her thesis is entitled Rabelais et les traditions populaires en Acadie.
