Jennifer Tremblay
Canadian writer (born 1973)
Jennifer Tremblay | |
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Born | 1973 (age 50–51) Forestville, Quebec, Canada |
Occupation | Writer |
Alma mater | Université du Québec à Montréal |
Jennifer Tremblay (born 1973) is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
She was born in Forestville. In 1990, she published a collection of poetry Histoires de foudre. She went on to graduate in creative writing at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1995. Tremblay contributed short stories and articles to various magazines and wrote episodes for the Radio-Canada television series Les Chatouilles and Bouledogue Bazar [fr]. In 2004, she published her first novel Tout ce qui brille.[1]
In 2004, she co-founded the publishing house Éditions de la Bagnole [fr],[1][2] which publishes books for youth.[3] It is now part of Groupe Livre Québecor Média [fr].[4]
Selected works
Sources:[1][2]
- Un secret pour Matisse, youth literature (2004)
- Miro et les canetons du lac vert, youth literature (2006)
- Sacha et son sushi, youth literature (2008)
- Matisse et les vaches lunaires, youth literature (2009)
- La Liste, play, received the Governor General's Award for French-language drama in 2008 and the Prix Michel-Tremblay in 2010[5] She also received an award from the Centre national du théâtre [fr] in France. Her play was translated into five languages.
- Le Carrousel, play (2011)
- La délivrance, play (2014)
- Blues nègre dans une chambre rose, novel (2015)[3]
References
- ^ a b c "The List (La liste) a study guide" (PDF). Nightwood Theatre.
- ^ a b "Tremblay, Jennifer" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
- ^ a b "Jennifer Tremblay" (in French). Centre des auteurs dramatiques.
- ^ "Book Group". Québecor.
- ^ "Prix Michel-Tremblay: deux prix pour six dramaturges". La Presse (in French). December 6, 2010.
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Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language drama
- Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations (1981)
- John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982)
- Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land (1983)
- Judith Thompson, White Biting Dog (1984)
- George F. Walker, Criminals in Love (1985)
- Sharon Pollock, Doc (1986)
- John Krizanc, Prague (1987)
- George F. Walker, Nothing Sacred (1988)
- Judith Thompson, The Other Side of the Dark (1989)
- Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1990)
- Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar (1991)
- John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night (1992)
- Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas (1993)
- Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth (1994)
- Jason Sherman, Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1995)
- Colleen Wagner, The Monument (1996)
- Ian Ross, fareWel (1997)
- Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet (1998)
- Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy (1999)
- Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Rex (2000)
- Kent Stetson, The Harps of God (2001)
- Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918) (2002)
- Vern Thiessen, Einstein's Gift (2003)
- Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2004)
- John Mighton, Half Life (2005)
- Daniel MacIvor, I Still Love You (2006)
- Colleen Murphy, The December Man (2007)
- Catherine Banks, Bone Cage (2008)
- Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (2009)
- Robert Chafe, Afterimage (2010)
- Erin Shields, If We Were Birds (2011)
- Catherine Banks, It Is Solved by Walking (2012)
- Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays (2013)
- Jordan Tannahill, Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (2014)
- David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave (2015)
- Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl (2016)
- Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm (2017)
- Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom (2018)
- Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game (2019)
- Kim Senklip Harvey, Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story (2020)
- Hannah Moscovitch, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (2021)
- Dorothy Dittrich, The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key (2022)
- Cliff Cardinal, As You Like It: A Radical Retelling (2023)