Editing Michel Tremblay (section)

==Career and impact==
Tremblay's early plays, including ''Hosanna''<ref name="Burke Gazette 2018 x750">{{cite web | last=Burke | first=Jim  |title=Michel Tremblay's Hosanna: a Quebec classic or transphobic? | website=Montreal Gazette | date=May 11, 2018 | url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/local-arts/michel-tremblays-hosanna-a-quebec-classic-or-transphobic | access-date=May 1, 2024}}</ref> and ''La Duchesse de Langeais'',<ref name="Lambert 2019 e372">{{cite web | last=Lambert | first=Simon | title=La duchesse de Langeais: l'amour qui brûle | website=Le Devoir | date=November 22, 2019 | url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/theatre/567590/la-duchesse-de-langeais-l-amour-qui-brule | language=fr | access-date=May 1, 2024}}</ref> challenged the boundaries of French Canadian society.<ref name="Page 2017 q439">{{cite web | last=Page | first=Morgan M | title=Why we don't need another revival of Michel Tremblay's Hosanna | website=[[Canadian Broadcasting Company]] | date=November 24, 2017 | url=https://www.cbc.ca/arts/why-we-don-t-need-another-revival-of-michel-tremblay-s-hosanna-1.4418362 | access-date=May 1, 2024}}</ref> Until the [[Quiet Revolution]] of the early 1960s, Tremblay saw Quebec as a poor, working-class province dominated by an [[English language|English-speaking]] elite and the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. Tremblay's work was part of a vanguard of liberal, nationalist thought that helped create an essentially modern society. His most famous plays are usually centred on gay characters. The first Canadian play about and starring a drag queen was his play ''[[Hosanna (play)|Hosanna]]'', which was first performed at [[Théâtre de Quat'Sous]] in Montreal in 1973.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tremblay |first1=Michel |translator-last1=Van Burek |translator-first1=John |translator-last2=Glassco |translator-first2=Bill |year=1991 |orig-year=1973 |title=Hosanna |location=Vancouver, BC |publisher=Leméac Éditeur}}</ref>

The women in his plays are usually strong but possessed with demons they must vanquish. It is said he sees Quebec as a matriarchal society. He is considered one of the best playwrights for women. In the late 1980s, ''[[Les Belles-sœurs]]'' ("The Sisters-in-Law") was produced in Scotland in [[Scots language|Scots]], as ''The Guid-Sisters'' ("guid-sister" being Scots for "sister-in-law"). His work has been translated into many languages, including [[Yiddish]], and including such works as ''Sainte-Carmen de la Main'', ''Ç'ta ton tour, Laura Cadieux'', and ''Forever Yours, Marilou'' (''À toi pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou'').

He has been [[coming out|openly]] [[gay]] throughout his public life, and he has written many novels (''The Duchess and the Commoner'', ''La nuit des princes charmants'', ''Le Coeur découvert'', ''Le Coeur éclaté'') and plays (''Hosanna'', ''La duchesse de Langeais'', ''Fragments de mensonges inutiles'') centred on gay characters.<ref name="glbtq">{{citation|last=Lachance |first=François |title=Tremblay, Michel |periodical=[[glbtq.com]] |year=2002 |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/tremblay_m.html |access-date=2007-08-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814125050/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/tremblay_m.html |archive-date=2007-08-14 }}</ref> In a 1987 interview with [[Shelagh Rogers]] for [[CBC Radio]]'s ''The Arts Tonight'', he remarked that he has always avoided behaviours he has considered masculine; for example, he does not smoke and he noted that he was 45 years old and did not know how to drive a car. "I think I am a rare breed," he said, "A homosexual who doesn't like men." He claims one of his biggest regrets in life was not telling his mother that he was gay before she died.

His latest play to receive wide acclaim is ''For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again'', a comedic and nostalgic play, centred on the memories of his mother. He later published the Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles, a cycle of six novels including ''[[The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant]]'' (''[[La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte]]'', 1978) and ''The Duchess and the Commoner'' (''La duchesse et le roturier'', 1982). The second novel of this series, ''Therese and Pierrette and the Little Hanging Angel'' (''Thérèse et Pierrette à l'école des Saints-Anges'', 1980), was one of the novels chosen for inclusion in the French version of ''[[Canada Reads]]'', ''Le combat des livres'', broadcast on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Radio-Canada]] in 2005, where it was championed by [[trade union|union activist]] Monique Simard.

Tremblay also worked on a television series entitled ''Le Cœur découvert'' (''The Heart Laid Bare''), about the lives of a gay couple in Quebec, for the French-language TV network [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Radio-Canada]]. In 2005 he completed another novel cycle, the ''Cahiers'' (''Le Cahier noir'' (translated as ''The Black Notebook''), ''Le Cahier rouge'', ''Le Cahier bleu''), dealing with the changes that occurred in 1960s Montreal during the Quiet Revolution. In 2009 ''The Fat Woman Next Door'' was a finalist in CBC's prestigious Canada Reads competition.