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Michel Tremblay: Born in a working-class family in Quebec,
novelist and playwright Michel Tremblay was raised in Montreal’s Le
Plateau neighbourhood. An ardent reader since a young age, Tremblay
began to write, in hiding, as a teenager. One of the most produced
and the most prominent playwrights in the history of Canadian
theatre, Tremblay has received countless prestigious honours and
accolades. Because of their charismatic originality, their vibrant
character portrayals and the profound vision they embody,
Tremblay’s dramatic, literary and autobiographical works have long
enjoyed remarkable international popularity; his plays have been
adapted and translated into dozens of languages and have achieved
huge success in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. Of his
own work, Tremblay has said,I know what I want in the theatre. I
want a real political theatre, but I know that political theatre is
dull. I write fables.”
Tremblay’s novel The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant was
long-listed for the CBC Canada Reads program in both 2002 and 2003.
In 2004, he appeared as a guest of honour at the Calgary WordFest.
In January and February of 2005, the Manitoba Theatre Centre
presented TremblayFest: a two-week extravaganza in which fifteen of
Tremblay’s stage plays were performed by sixteen different theatre
companies. In April 2006—as Montreal concluded its term as World
Book Capital—Tremblay was the recipient of the Blue Metropolis
International Literary Grand Prix, awarded annually in recognition
of a lifetime of literary achievement to a writer of international
stature and accomplishment.
Shelia Fischman: Sheila Fischman is a member of the Order of Canada
and has a doctorate from the University of Waterloo. In 1999, she
received an honourary doctorate from the University of Ottawa. A
two-time Governor General’s Award winner, Fischman has translated
from French to English more than a hundred novels by such prominent
Quebec writers as Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Anne Hébert,
François Gravel, Marie-Claire Blais and Roch Carrier. She is a
founding member of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada
and has also been a book columnist for the Globe and Mail and the
Montreal Gazette. In 2008, Fischman was awarded the prestigious
Molson Prize for her outstanding contributions to Canadian
literature.
Originally from Saskatchewan, Fischman currently resides in
Montreal.
“In this brilliantly constructed, coming-of-age novel Nana learns
and guesses a lot of things about each of the characters she
encounters. By the end of her journey, she is not the same: she is
not an adult, she is not a teenager, but she has learned things
about life that she had never suspected existed.” – Voir
“In this novel, Tremblay not only gives his fans the background
they crave on their beloved Plateau characters, he also sets the
groundwork for understanding that the world and the people in it
are Janus-like. Good and bad, French and English, country and city,
moral and immoral, brave and scared, everything is all rolled up
into this thing called life.” – The Globe and Mail
“The empathy and tenderness that Tremblay has for his characters is
evident on every page of the novel Crossing the Continent.” – Le
Devoir
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