Michel Tremblay: 22 books

Westminster Roland Michel Tremblay Roman de 437 000 car., 76 500 mots Après Un Québécois à Paris, Un Québécois à New-York et Un Québécois à Londres, Roland Michel Tremblay nous fait part de sa vie d’homosexuel dans la capitale de sa Très Gracieuse Majesté. Il rentre à Westminster le...

Un Québécois à Londres Roland Michel Tremblay 580 000 caractères (420 p.) Après Un Québécois à Paris et Un Québécois à New York, ce troisième et dernier volet de la trilogie décrit de la vie cahotique et mouvementée de Roland Michel Tremblay. Il conte ses aventures...

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, Réauna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay’s work as “Nana,” was sent with her two younger sisters, Béa and Alice, to be raised on her maternal grandparents’ farm in Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan, a francophone Catholic...

In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Céline Poulin works the night shift at a cheap and popular restaurant, Le Sélect, serving hamburger platters and spaghetti and meatballs to student misfits, transvestites, hookers and queens from the Main-Montreal’s...

Solitude des premiers salons du livre, erreurs sur la personne, séances de dédicaces interminables, cadeaux des lecteurs, témoignages émouvants, insultes et humiliations, séjours à l’étranger, fêtes et durs lendemains de veille, moments décisifs et consécrations, péripéties de tout acabit…...

In Michel Tremblay’s classic play about identity in crisis, Claude leaves the conformity of small-town Quebec to realize a new life and a new persona among the drag queens and prostitutes of Montreal’s seedy “Main” – the boulevard that marks the division of the city’s anglophone and francophone...

The story continues … The second in Michel Tremblay’s new series of novels presents two very different lives. We meet Maria as she leaves the city of Providence, Rhode Island, pregnant and alone. Two years later, we also meet Maria’s older daughter, Rhéauna, as she disembarks the train at Windsor...

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is Tremblay’s homage to his mother, who nurtured his imagination, his reclusive reading habits and his love for the theatre and the arts, yet who did not live to witness the performance of Les Belles Soeurs-the first successful play written in joual with which Tremblay...

Two grown sisters confront the memory of their parents’ tragic death. This revised edition of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, which played at the 1990 Stratford Festival, is John Van Burek and Bill Glassco’s translation of Michel Tremblay’s original French text. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

In Birth of a Bookworm, Michel Tremblay takes the reader on a tour of the books that have had a formative influence on the birth and early development of his creative imagination; the physical and emotional world of his childhood is celebrated as the fertile ground on which his new, vivid way of seeing and imagining is built.

Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay, who later became Canada’s most important playwright. Among others, he talks about Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Orphée and The Night Visitors, and about how each led to his discovery of his emerging emotional sensibilities.

Green Shield stamps, a million of them, and Ger Lawless has won them all. It’s Ballymun, it’s 1973 and she’s got 15 friends round for a stamp-sticking party. Over one night, the lives of 15 women collide in Deirdre Kinahan’s new version of Michel Tremblay’s fêted Quebecois comedy, Les Belles-Soeurs. Premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in February 2018.

Un Québecois à Paris de Roland-Michel Tremblay Roland, à 21 ans, est à la croisée des chemins. Il vit entre deux mondes : homosexuel et hétérosexuel, francophone et anglophone, Sébastien et Edward. Au sortir de l’adolescence, c’est l’heure des choix. Le rêve de ce "cute"...

It is the glorious second day of May, 1942. Seven women in this raucous Francophone working-class Montreal neighbourhood are pregnant – only one of them, “the fat woman,” is bearing a child of true love and affection. In this first of six novels that became his Chronicles of the Plateau Mont Royal, Tremblay provides a “divine comedy” of triumphs and tragedies.