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Michel Tremblay, CQ (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian 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 straight-laced, deeply religious society of mid-20th century Quebec. ==His work and its impact== The most profound and lasting effects of Tremblay's early plays, including ''Hosanna'' and ''La Duchesse de Langeais'', were the barriers they toppled in Quebec society. Until the Quiet Revolution of the early 1960s, Tremblay saw Quebec as a poor, working-class province dominated by an English-speaking elite and the Roman Catholic Church. Tremblay's work was part of a vanguard of liberal, nationalist thought that helped create an essentially modern society. His most famous plays are usually centered on homosexual characters. The women are usually strong but possessed with demons they must vanquish. It is said he sees Quebec as a matriarchal society. He is considered one of the best playwrights for women. In the late 1980s, ''Les Belles-soeurs'' ("The Sisters-in-Law") was produced in Scotland in Scots, as ''The Guid-Sisters'' ("guid-sister" being Scots for "sister-in-law"). His work has been translated into many languages, including Yiddish, and including such works as ''Sainte-Carmen de la Main'', ''Ç'ta ton tour, Laura Cadieux'', and ''Forever Yours, Marilou'' (''À toi pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou''). He has been openly gay throughout his public life, and he has written many novels (''The Duchess and the Commoner'', ''La nuit des princes charmants'', ''Le Coeur découvert'', ''Le Coeur éclaté'') and plays (''Hosanna'', ''La duchesse de Langeais'', ''Fragments de mensonges inutiles'') centred on gay characters. In a 1987 interview with Shelagh Rogers for CBC Radio's ''The Arts Tonight'', he remarked that he has always avoided behaviours he has considered masculine; for example, he does not smoke and he noted that he was 45 years old and did not know how to drive a car. "I think I am a rare breed," he said, "A homosexual who doesn't like men." He claims one of his biggest regrets in life was not telling his mother that he was gay, before she died. His latest play to receive wide acclaim is ''For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again'', a funny and nostalgic play, centered on the memories of his mother. He later published the Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles, a cycle of six novels including ''The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant'' (''La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte'', 1978) and ''The Duchess and the Commoner'' (''La duchesse et le roturier'', 1982). The second novel of this series, ''Therese and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel'' (''Thérèse et Pierrette à l'école des Saints-Anges'', 1980), was one of the novels chosen for inclusion in the French version of ''Canada Reads'', ''Le combat des livres'', broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2005, where it was championed by union activist Monique Simard. Tremblay worked also on a television series entitled ''Le Cœur découvert'' (''The Heart Laid Bare''), about the lives of a gay couple in Quebec, for the French-language TV network Radio-Canada. In 2005 he completed another novel cycle, the ''Cahiers'' (''Le Cahier noir'' (translated as ''The Black Notebook''), ''Le Cahier rouge'', ''Le Cahier bleu''), dealing with the changes that occurred in 1960s Montreal during the Quiet Revolution. In 2009 ''The Fat Woman Next Door'' was a finalist in CBC's prestigious Canada Reads competition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michel Tremblay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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