Larry Tremblay

Larry Tremblay is a Canadian award-winning author, director, actor, and specialist in Kathakali, a classical dance theater that he studied on numerous trips to India. He has published over thirty books as a playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist. His works have been translated into over twenty languages and his plays have been produced in many countries.

Larry is one of Quebec’s most frequently staged and translated playwrights. Critics and scholars praise the diversity of genres he explores in his work. He is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 2003 and 2014.

Larry Tremblay published five novels and many short stories, earning high critical acclaim. His debut novel, The Bicycle Eater, published by Leméac, was unanimously praised by the critics, won the Prix Roman 2003 at the Salon du Livre in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, and was a finalist for the Canadian Governor General’s Award.

The Orange Grove (L'Orangeraie), which won the 2014 Quebec Booksellers' Prize, has also won 16 prizes to date and has so far been published in 20 countries.

The Orange Grove is also presently being developed as an opera. Larry wrote the libretto. Music by Lebanese-born, Paris-based composer, Zad Moultaka who represented Lebanon at the Venice Biennale, 2018.

In 2016 Larry Tremblay published two new novels: L’Impureté, (Impurity) a novel in the top 10 French language books of 2016; Même pas vrai, (Liar, Liar) Larry’s first illustrated novel for children, which won The Toronto Dominion Award, Canada’s most prestigious prize in Canadian literature for children and Youth audience— in 2017; The illustrated novel was published in March 2018 in France and 2019 in China.

His latest novel, Le Deuxième Mari (The Second Husband), is about a world in which women rule the world and dominate men.

Tremblay has also taught acting at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

He currently resides in Montreal and Paris.

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