Michel Tremblay

Michel Tremblay, CQ ( born June 25, 1942 in Montreal ) is a Canadian writer, theater and film director.

Work

Tremblay the first to describe the " joual ", the dialect of the working class in Quebec, and brought him to the stage. His play Les Belles- Soeurs 1968 applies in Canada as epochal. Michel Tremblay knows poverty from personal experience, from the time before the Quiet Revolution (French la révolution tranquille ) 1960 begins to blossom with the electoral victory of the Liberals. " Belles-soeurs " represents the women of the working class in Quebec of the 20th century, the book exerts also social criticism.

For Canadian television he produced the television series Le cœur découvert which is about a gay couple in Montreal. Tremblay lives homosexual in Canada.

Awards

Tremblay has received several awards, including the Prix Victor- Morin (1974 ), the Prix France- Québec ( 1981), the Prix Jean- Hamelin (1981 ), the Prix Québec - Paris (1984) and the Prix du Governor général ( 1984, 1987, 1999). He also won the Prix Athanase - David (1988 ) and the Grand prix du livre de Montréal ( 1989) for Le Premier quartier de la lune. In 1991 he was awarded the Ordre national du Québec. In 1994, the Molson Prize he was awarded. In 1999 he received a nomination at the Genie Award for Best Original Song for C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux.