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.
Linda Gaboriau is an award-winning literary translator based in Montréal. Her translations of plays by Québec’s most prominent playwrights have been published and produced across Canada and abroad. In her work as a literary manager and dramaturge, she has directed numerous translation residencies and international exchange projects. She was the founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. Gaboriau is a multiple Governor General’s Award winner for Translation: in 1996, for Daniel Danis’s Stone and Ashes; in 2010, for Wajdi Mouawad’s Forests; and in 2019, for Wajdi Mouawad’s Birds of a Kind. She was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.
