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 thirty plays, thirty-one novels, eight collections of autobiographical stories, a collection of tales, seven screenplays, forty-seven trans¬lations and adaptations of works by foreign writers, ten plays and fifteen 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-three languages and have garnered critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, and more than fifty countries around the world.
Short-listed 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Short-listed 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Winner 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Short-listed 2009 Canada Reads Competition
Winner 1990 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award
Winner 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Winner 2000 Dora Mavor Moore Award General Theatre: Outstanding New Play