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Carole Fréchette
Carole Fréchette has been
a force in Québec theatre for more than 25 years. Her plays, translated
in several languages, are performed all over the world. She won the
1995 Governor General’s Award for her play Les Quatre morts de
Marie (The Four Lives of Marie) and the 1998 Chalmers Award
for the same play translated into English. She then received Governor
General’s Literary Award nominations for La Peau d’Élisa
(Elisa’s Skin) in 1998, for Les Sept jours de Simon Labrosse
(Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse) in 1999 and for
Jean et Béatrice (John and Beatrice) in 2002. Her play
Le Collier d’Hélène (Helen’s Necklace) recently earned
her the Sony Labou Tansi Award in France. In 2002, the French association
SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques) awarded her,
in Avignon, the Prix de la Francophonie to underline her success in
the French-speaking world; the same year, she received in Toronto the
Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s most prestigious theatre award. Three
English translations of her plays by John Murrell, were published under
the title Three Plays by Playwrights Canada Press in Toronto:
The Four Lives of Marie, Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse
and Élisa’s Skin. She has also translated Colleen Wagner’s
The Monument into French.
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