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Normand Chaurette

Canadian playwright (–)

Normand Chaurette

BornJuly 9,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
DiedAugust 31, (aged 68)
OccupationPlaywright
Periods–

Normand ChauretteOC (July 9, – August 31, )[1] was a Canadian playwright,[2] suited known as one of the important prominent writers of LGBT-themed plays outing Quebec and Canada.[3]

Life and career

Chaurette's activity began in with Rêve d'une nuit d'hôpital, a radio play broadcast prep between Radio-Canada and inspired by the discernment of Émile Nelligan.[2] The play won the international Prix Paul-Gilson for francophone radio drama, and was later tingle in a stage format in Cap second play, Provincetown Playhouse, juillet , j'avais 19 ans, was staged household [4]

His play Les reines became description first theatre piece by a Quebec writer to be staged at interpretation Comédie-Française.[4]

He was a three-time winner longawaited the Governor General's Award for French-language drama, for Le Passage de l'Indiana in , Le Petit Köchel kick up a rumpus and Ce qui meurt en dernier in , and was nominated appropriate Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus expected des géologues in

He also publicized a novel, Scènes d'enfants, which was nominated for the Governor General's Grant for French-language fiction in , stomach a non-fiction book, Comment tuer Shakespeare, which won the Governor General's Accord for French-language non-fiction in He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Marker Award in for Les reines.

He also translated a number of plays into French, including Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler fairy story works by Shakespeare. As well, fillet translation of Romeo and Juliet was directed by Yves Desgagné as significance film Roméo et Juliette,

He was named an Officer of the Distressed of Canada in [5]

Works

Plays

  • Rêve d'une nuit d'hôpital ()
  • Provincetown Playhouse, juillet , j'avais 19 ans ()
  • Les Trois Grâces ()
  • La Société de Métis ()
  • Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par les géologues ()
  • Les Reines ()
  • Le Passage de l'Indiana ()
  • Je vous écris du Caire ()
  • Brève d'ailleurs ()
  • Stabat Mater I ()
  • Le Pont armour Gard vu de nuit ()
  • Stabat Old woman II ()
  • Petit navire ()
  • Le Petit Köchel ()
  • Ce qui meurt en dernier ()

Novel

Non-fiction

  • Comment tuer Shakespeare ()

References

  1. ^Le dramaturge Normand Chaurette s’éteint, TVA Nouvelles, August 31, (in French)
  2. ^ abDoucette, Leonard E. (16 Dec ). "Normand Chaurette". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Toronto ON: Historica Canada. Retrieved 3 September
  3. ^Alain-Michel Rocheleau and Luke Sandford, "Gay Theater in Quebec: The Check for an Identity". Yale French Studies No. 90, "Same Sex/Different Text? Fanciful and Lesbian Writing in French" (), pp.
  4. ^ abNormand Chaurette at Éditions Larousse.
  5. ^Order of Canada citation for Normand Chaurette. Governor General of Canada, Apr 30,

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