Michel Tremblay

Michel Tremblay
One of the most produced and the most prominent playwrights in the history of Canadian theatre, Michel Tremblay has received countless prestigious honours and accolades. His dramatic, literary and autobiographical works have long enjoyed remarkable international popularity, including translations of his plays that have achieved huge success in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.
Awards and Recognition*
Prix du Grand (2009) La Traversée de la ville (Leméac Editeur Inc.)
Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prix (2006)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Books (2003) Birth of a Bookworm
Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (2000) For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again
Chalmers Awards (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1989, 2000)
Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (1999)
Molson Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (1994)
Louis-Hémon Prize (1994)
Montreal Book Fair Grand Public Prize (1994)
Banff Centre National Award (1992)
Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France (1991)
Chevalier of the Order of Quebec (1990)
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Festival Long-Standing Public Service Award (1989)
CBC Anik Prize (1988)
Athanase-David Lifetime Achievement Prize (1988)
Quebec-Paris Prize (1985)
Chevalier of Arts and Letters of France (1984)
John Van Burek
John Van Burek has been a practising theatre artist for over 20 years, in both French and English, throughout Canada. He has also worked in the fields of opera, film and television. He is also one of Canada’s leading translators for theatre, most notably of Michel Tremblay’s plays, including Les Belles-Soeurs (Talonbooks). Mr. Van Burek has received several awards and citations for his work, including the Toronto Drama Bench Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Canadian Theatre.
Bill Glassco
Born in Quebec, William Grant (?Bill”) Glassco was a Canadian theatre director, producer and founder of Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. He then became the artistic director of the CentreStage Theatre Company which merged, in 1988, with the Toronto Free Theatre to become CanStage. In 1982, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Books by Michel Tremblay

A Great Consolation

Twists of Fate

The Grand Melee

Rite of Passage

A Crossing of Hearts

The Red Notebook

Yours Forever, Marie-Lou

The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again

Forever Yours, Marie-Lou

Bambi and Me

Birth of a Bookworm

The Heart Laid Bare ebook

Crossing the City

Hosanna

Crossing the Continent

The Blue Notebook

Albertine in Five Times

Assorted Candies for the Theatre

Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies

The Black Notebook

The Driving Force

The Drivin Force e-book

Some Night My Prince Will Come

Past Perfect

Impromptu on Nuns' Island

The Heart Laid Bare

Twelve Opening Acts

Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer

News from Édouard

City in the Egg, The

The Duchess and the Commoner

A Thing of Beauty

Marcel Pursued by the Hounds

Thérèse and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel

The First Quarter of the Moon

Les Belles Soeurs

Guid Sisters: Three Plays

La Maison Suspendue

Bonjour, Là, Bonjour

The Real World?

Remember Me

Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra

Sainte-Carmen of the Main

The Impromptu of Outremont

Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays

En Pièces Détachées