Lise Vaillancourt (born July 5, 1954) is a Quebec writer.[1]
She was born in Montreal and studied philosophy at the Cégep Édouard-Montpetit and theatre and film at the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Université Laval. From 1975 to 1979, she apprenticed as a mime at the Théâtre national du Mime du Québec. From 1982 to 1987, she was an artistic director for the Théâtre expérimental des femmes and a co-founder of Théâtre Espace Go. In 1991, Vaillancourt became artistic director for the Théâtre de la Ville de Longueui. She also wrote for the publications Le Devoir, Jeu and Trois.[1] She has been artist-in-residence at the Art Studio at the Banff Centre, at the Festival des francophonies en Limousin and at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. She has served as president of the Centre des auteurs dramatiques du Québec.[2]
Selected works edit
Plays for young people[3] edit
- Ballade pour trois baleines (1982)
- Martha Jenkins (1982)
- Si toi aussi tu m'abandonnes... (1986)
- Marie-Antoine, Opus 1 (1984), English translation included in Anthology of Québec Plays in English Translation Vol I (1966-1986)
- Amours imprévues dans la jungle équatoriale (1986)
- Billy Strauss (1990)
- Le Petit Dragon (1996), shortlisted for a Governor General's Award in 2000
Novels[1] edit
- Journal d'une obsédée (1989)
- L'Été des eiders (1996), finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction
References edit
- ^ a b c "Vaillancourt, Lise" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
- ^ "Lise Vaillancourt" (in French). Centre des auteurs dramatiques du Québec.
- ^ "Vaillancourt, Lise". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
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