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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.
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Sheila Fischman
was raised in Ontario and is a graduate of the University of
Toronto. She is a founding member of the Literary Translators’
Association of Canada and has also been a columnist for the Globe
and Mail and Montreal Gazette, a broadcaster with CBC Radio, and
literary editor of the Montreal Star. She now devotes herself full
time to literary translation, specializing in contemporary Quebec
fiction, and has translated more than 125 Quebec novels by, among
others, Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Anne Hébert, François
Gravel, Marie-Claire Blais, and Roch Carrier. Sheila Fischman has
received numerous honors, including the 1998 Governor General’s
Award (for her translation of Michel Tremblay’s Bambi and Me for
Talonbooks); she has been a finalist fourteen times for this award.
She has received two Canada Council Translation Prizes and two
Félix-Antoine Savard Awards from Columbia University. In 2000, she
was invested into the Order of Canada and, in 2008, into the Ordre
national du Québec, and, in 2008, she received the Canada Council
for the Arts Molson Prize for her outstanding contributions to
Canadian literature. She holds honorary doctorates from the
Universities of Ottawa and Waterloo. 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
"Tremblay once again beautifully and skillfully depicts the nuances
and overlaps between urban and rural experiences, the weight of
intergenerational struggles, and the sometimes tricky negotiations
between the yearnings of the individual and those of family"
—Canadian Literature
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