Michel Tremblay

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant

  • Forever Yours, Marie-Lou

    This second revised edition of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, which played at the 1990 Stratford Festival, is John Van Burek and Bill Glassco’s new translation of Michel Tremblay’s original French text....

  • The First Quarter of the Moon

    It is June 20, 1952, a decade after the events described in The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant, the first volume of Michel Tremblay’s series of autobiographical fiction. The mystic, yet palpable instant of summer’s arrival is experienced simulta...

  • Therese and Pierette and the Little Hanging Angel

  • A Thing of Beauty

    March, 1963. Winter has launched its final assault on Montreal. The Fat Woman, Thérèse, Edouard, Pierrette, Marcel, all the star-crossed characters of Tremblay’s Chronicles of Plateau Mont-Royal are here again, 20 years later. Marcel, now 23, lea...

  • The City in the Egg

    Here for the first time ever is Tremblay’s first novel, La Cité dans l’oeuf (1969), translated into English by award-winning translator Michael Bullock. This superb fantasy novel is essential for readers wishing to understand Tremblay’s dra...

  • The Duchess and the Commoner

    (This third volume in the Chronicles of the Plateau Mont-Royal -- an epic series of novels which imagines the lives of the characters of Tremblay’s plays -- deals with an explicitly gay thematic: Tremblay’s metaphor for the Québécois desire f...

  • News from Edouard

    Édouard, whom we met in The Duchess and the Commoner, a common shoe salesman at the feet of the well-heeled by day; but the "Duchess of Langeais,” star of the transvestite shows on the Main by night, has been left an inheritance by his mother, Vi...

  • The Heart Laid Bare

    Talonbooks is pleased to announce a new edition of one of Michel Tremblay’s most unusual novels. First published in English translation by M&S in 1989 under the title The Heart Laid Bare [Le coeur découvert, Leméac, 1986], British and America...



  • Some Night My Prince Will Come

    An evening at the opera spills out onto the street and into an odyssey through Montreal by night. The narrator, both innocent and cynical, rushes headlong down what appears to be the road to ruin -- or perhaps merely to the loss of his virginity. We...

  • The Red Notebook

    From the theatre of Euripides to the theatre of Montreal’s Main, Michel Tremblay casts some of his most famous and exotic personae, The Duchess, Fine Dumas, Jean-le-Décollé and Babalu, in a whole new light in his new Notebooks. Unlike his Plateau...

  • The Blue Notebook

    When Fine Dumas’s notorious transvestite Boudoir is shut down after Expo 67, Céline is condemned to go back to working as a waitress at Le Sélect, attending to the frustrated appetites and exquisite pathos of its exotic clientele. Then a newcomer...

  • Anna Maria

    Anna Maria: A Paranormal Science Fiction MysteryLiving in a thatched roof cottage in Richmond Park in West London, clairvoyant Anna Maria investigates unexplained phenomena and mysteries with her neighbour the Duke of Connaught. As their relationship...

  • Crossing the Continent

    Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, Rhéauna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay’s work as “Nana,” was sent with her two younger sisters, Béa and Alice, to be raised on her maternal grandparents’ far...

  • Crossing the City

    The story continues … The second in Michel Tremblay’s new series of novels presents two very different lives. We meet Maria as she leaves the city of Providence, Rhode Island, pregnant and alone. Two years later, we also meet Maria’s older daug...

  • The Black Notebook

    In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Céline Poulin works the night shift at a cheap and popular restaurant, Le Sélect, serving hamburger platters and spaghetti and meatballs to student misfits, trans...

  • A Crossing of Hearts

    A Crossing of Hearts continues Michel Tremblay’s Desrosiers Diaspora series of novels, a family saga set in Montreal during World War I. August 1915. Montreal is stifled by a heat wave while war rages in Europe. The three Desrosiers sisters " Tit...

  • Rites of Passage

    At the crossroads that lead to the end of childhood, Nana faces the hectic passage of her adolescence and the new responsibilities that fall on her shoulders when her grandmother Josephine approaches death. To calm the storm, Nana continues reading t...

  • The Grand Melee

    The fifth novel in the Desrosiers Diaspora series from Québécois national treasure Michel Tremblay. It’s May 1922, and preparations are in full swing for the marriage of Nana and Gabriel, which will take place the following month. The...



  • Twists of Fate

    Michel Tremblay’s Twists of Fate gathers volumes 6 and 7 of the critically acclaimed Desrosiers Diaspora series of novels, If by Chance and Destination Paradise. In If by Chance, set in 1925, the great Ti-Lou, the famous She-Wolf of Ottawa, ret...

  • A Great Consolation

    Survive! Survive! transports readers to September 1935, to glorious, tragic times in the colourful company of Ti-Lou and “the Duchess” Édouard, whose sparkling exchanges hide indissoluble pain; to sombre, twilight times with Victoire...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michel Tremblay has published 21 books.

Michel Tremblay does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Great Consolation, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Michel Tremblay, The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant, was published in January 1981.

No. Michel Tremblay does not write books in series.
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