Michel Tremblay

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

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Tremblay first described the "Joual", the dialect of the working class in Québec , and brought it to the stage. His 1968 play Les Belles-Soeurs is considered epoch-making in Canada. Michel Tremblay knows poverty from his own experience, from the time before the silent revolution (French: la révolution tranquille ) began to flourish in 1960 with the liberal election victory. “Les Belles-Soeurs” portrays working class women in Québec in the 20th century , and the book also criticizes society.

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

Awards

Tremblay has won 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). This was followed by 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 he was awarded the Molson Prize . In 1999 he received a nomination for the Genie Award for the best original song for C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux .

Works (in German)

  • Übers. Hanspeter Plocher: Sister heart . Series: Canadiana Romanica, 2. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1987; again in America writing differently. Quebec literature. Ed. Lothar Baier u. a. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2000. pp. 278 - 283. (= Les Belles-Sœurs) UA Montréal 1968, DEA Romanistentheater (Augsburg) 1987
  • Übers. Thomas Plaichinger: The man in Daddy's bed. Bruno Gmünder, Berlin 1990 and others
  • Übers. Rainer Escher: Hosanna. Drama. Self-published, 1990 (not in trade, not listed at the German National Library )
  • Translated from Hanspeter Plocher: Requiem for Mama. 1993 (= L'impromptu d'Outremont, 1980). DEA Romanist Theater Augsburg 1993

literature

  • Ursula Reutner : English in Canadian French. Tremblay's "Les belles-sœurs". In: America Romana. Edited by Wolfgang Dahmen. Narr, Tübingen 2012 (Romance Studies Colloquium, 26) (Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics, 535) pp. 169 - 192

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ As a novel: series Éd, Babel, Actes Sud, Arles 1986, 1990 ISBN 2742706305 , 2009 ISBN 2742788638
  2. ↑ GLBTQ in the "Encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer" culture
personal data
SURNAME Tremblay, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada