Michel Tremblay

A major figure in Québec literature, Michel Tremblay has built an impressive body of work as a playwright, novelist, translator, and screenwriter. To date Tremblay’s complete works include twenty-nine plays, thirty-one novels, six collections of autobiographical stories, a collection of tales, seven screenplays, forty-six translations and adaptations of works by foreign writers, nine plays and twelve stories printed in diverse publications, an opera libretto, a song cycle, a Symphonic Christmas Tale, and two musicals. His work has won numerous awards and accolades; his plays have been published and translated into forty languages and have garnered critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, and more than fifty countries around the world.

Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies

Short-listed 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation

Impromptu on Nuns' Island

Winner 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation

Twelve Opening Acts

Short-listed 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again

Winner 2000 Dora Mavor Moore Award General Theatre: Outstanding New Play

Bambi and Me

Winner 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation

La Maison Suspendue

Winner 1990 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

Short-listed 2009 Canada Reads Competition