A major figure in Québec theatre, Michel Tremblay has built an impressive body of work as a playwright, novelist, translator, and screenwriter. To date, Michel’s complete works include twenty-nine plays (including two theatrical adaptations of his own work); thirty novels; six collections of autobiographical stories; a collection of tales; seven screenplays; forty-six translations/adaptations of works by foreign writers; nine plays and 12twelve stories printed in diverse publications; an opera libretto; a song cycle; a Symphonic Christmas Tale; and two musicals. 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. His name can be found in the Larousse and Robert Dictionaries, the Who’s Who Encyclopedia, the Dictionary of International Biography and the Encyclopedia Britannica. During his career, Michel has received more than 80 prizes, citations and honours including the Grand Prix de la Francophonie, awarded by the Académie française in 2018, as well as the Prince Pierre de Monaco Literary Prize and the Prix Gilles-Corbeil for his contribution to the arts in 2017. A six-time winner of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, he won nine Chalmers Awards and five Grand Prix du public presented during Montreal’s annual book fair le Salon du livre. In 1999, he was awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards. He has also received six honorary doctorates.
Sheila Fischman is the award-winning translator of some two hundred works of contemporary fiction from Québec. Along with Larry Tremblay, her authors include Hubert Aquin, Anne Hébert, Gaétan Soucy, Marie-Claire Blais, François Gravel, and Christine Eddie, among others. She has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for French to English Translation fifteen times, and has twice won it for translations of Michel Tremblay’s work; she has also received the Molson Prize in the Arts. A Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalière of the Ordre national du Québec, she lives in Montréal.
Pierre Filion is the publisher at Éditions Leméac (Montréal, Québec) and a specialist of Michel Tremblay’s oeuvre.
