Birth of a Bookworm

A major figure in Québec literature, Michel Tremblay has built an impressive body of work as a playwright, novelist, translator, and screenwriter. To date Tremblay's complete works include thirty plays, thirty-one novels, eight collections of autobiographical stories, a collection of tales, seven screenplays, forty-seven trans¬lations and adaptations of works by foreign writers, ten plays and fifteen stories printed in diverse publications, an opera libretto, a song cycle, a Symphonic Christmas Tale, and two musicals. His plays have been published and translated into forty-three languages and have garnered critical acclaim in Canada, the United States, and more than fifty countries around the world.