Michel Tremblay

Michel Tremblay GOQ
Michel Tremblay at the Salon du livre de Montréal (2017)
Born	(1942-06-25) June 25, 1942 (age 82) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Writer, Novelist, Theatre Playwright
Language	French
Notable works	Les Belles-sœurs (1968) À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou (1970) La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte (1978) Albertine, en cinq temps (1984) Le Vrai Monde ? (1987) Encore une fois, si vous permettez (1998)
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Michel Tremblay GOQ (born 25 June 1942) is a Québécois novelist and playwright.

Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect - something that would heavily influence his work. Tremblay's first professionally produced play, Les Belles-Sœurs, was written in 1965 and premiered at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert on August 28, 1968. It transformed the old guard of Canadian theatre and introduced joual to the mainstream. It stirred up controversy by portraying the lives of working-class women and attacking the strait-laced, deeply religious society of mid-20th century Quebec.