Canadian · b. 1954
Larry Tremblay is a Canadian playwright, novelist, poet, director and actor from Quebec. Born in 1954, he has written about thirty books and more than twenty plays, and his work has been staged and published in many countries. He trained in Kathakali, a classical dance-theatre form from Kerala, India, and has taught theatre at the Université de Montréal. He served as Poet Laureate of Montreal from 2016 to 2018. His novel L'orangeraie (2013), published in English as The Orange Grove in Sheila Fischman's translation, follows twin brothers pressed into a cycle of revenge in a war-torn country. It won several awards in Quebec and was widely translated. His plays often deal with violence, war and family, and he writes in short, direct sentences. Tremblay is a leading figure in Quebec theatre and letters.