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David French

Born in Coley’s Point, Newfoundland, David French was one of Canada’s best-known and most critically acclaimed playwrights. His work received many major awards, and French was one of the first inductees into the Newfoundland Arts Hall of Honour.
Among his best-loved works are the semi-autobiographical Mercer plays: Salt-Water Moon, 1949, Leaving Home, recently named one of Canada’s 100 Most Influential Books (Literary Review of Canada) and one of the 1,000 Most Essential Plays in the English Language (Oxford Dictionary of Theatre), Of the Fields, Lately and Soldier’s Heart. The Mercer plays have received hundreds of productions across North America, including a Broadway production of Of the Fields, Lately. This quintet of plays about a Newfoundland family has also touched audiences in Europe, South America and Australia. In addition, French produced skillful adaptations of Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Forest, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull and August Strindberg’s Miss Julie.

November 2011 : Talk About David French's Salt Water Moon on CTV

April 2011 : Salt-Water Moon at the NAC

December 2010 : A Fond Farewell to David French

BOOK AWARDS

Nominated for the 1988 BC Book Prize for Non-Fiction

BOOK AWARDS

Winner of the 1985 Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding New Play

Winner of the 1985 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award

Winner of the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics Award and ACTRA Award

BOOK AWARDS

Winner of the 1980 The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

QUOTES OF NOTE

A definite winner that will be around for a long time.
— _Ottawa Citizen

QUOTES OF NOTE

[French] is one of Canda’s most acclaimed playwrights and an accomplished explorer of the power of memory.
— Quill & Quire

QUOTES OF NOTE

Told with French’s warm humour and effortless command of stage convention.
— Globe and Mail