This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for French-language drama. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for French language poetry or drama was divided.
Because the award is presented for plays published in print, a play's eligibility for the award can sometimes be several years later than its initial theatrical staging. [1] Titles which compile several works by the playwright into a single volume may also be nominated for or win the award.
Year [2] | Author | Title |
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1981 | Marie Laberge | C'était avant la guerre à l'anse à Gilles |
Jean-Pierre Ronfard | Vie et mort du Roi Boiteux | |
1982 | Réjean Ducharme | Ha ha! ... |
Marie Laberge | Avec l'hiver qui s'en vient | |
Léo Lévesque | ... Quand j'y ai dit ça ... à parti à rire | |
Jovette Marchessault | La terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc | |
1983 | René Gingras | Syncope |
Michelle Allen | La passion de Juliette | |
René-Daniel Dubois | 26 bis, impasse du Colonel Foisy | |
1984 | René-Daniel Dubois | Ne blâmez jamais les Bédouins |
Gilbert Dupuis | Les Transporteurs de monde | |
Marcel Sabourin | Pleurer pour rire | |
Michel Tremblay | Albertine, en cinq temps | |
1985 | Maryse Pelletier | Duo pour voix obstinées |
Michel Marc Bouchard | La poupée de Pélopia | |
Francine Noël | Chandeleur | |
1986 | Anne Legault | La visite des sauvages |
Normand Chaurette | Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par des géologues | |
Yves Desgagnés, Louise Roy | Les nouilles | |
Jean-Pierre Ronfard | Le Titanic | |
1987 | Jeanne-Mance Delisle | Un oiseau vivant dans la gueule |
Suzanne Aubry | La Nuit des p'tits couteaux | |
Marie Laberge | Oublier | |
Michel Tremblay | Le vrai monde? | |
1988 | Jean-Marc Dalpé | Le Chien |
Normand Canac-Marquis | Le Syndrome de Cézanne | |
Marie-Francine Hébert | Oui ou non | |
Marco Micone | Déjà l'agonie | |
André Ricard | Le Déversoir des larmes | |
1989 | Michel Garneau | Mademoiselle Rouge |
Michel Marc Bouchard | Les Muses orphelines | |
Robert Claing | La Femme d'intérieur |
Year [2] | Author | Title |
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1990 | Jovette Marchessault | Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr |
René-Daniel Dubois | Le Troisième fils du professeur Yourolov | |
Anne Hébert | L'Île de la Demoiselle | |
1991 | Gilbert Dupuis | Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri |
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu | La maison cassée | |
Michel Marc Bouchard | L'Histoire de l'oie | |
Dominic Champagne | La répétition | |
Suzanne Lebeau | Conte du jour et de la nuit | |
1992 | Louis-Dominique Lavigne | Les petits orteils |
Dominic Champagne | La cité interdite | |
Robert Claing | Anna | |
Marie Laberge | Pierre ou la consolation | |
Marthe Mercure | Tu faisais comme un appel | |
1993 | Daniel Danis | Celle-là |
Jasmine Dubé | Petit Monstre | |
Gilbert Dupuis | Kushapatshikan | |
1994 | Michel Ouellette | French Town |
Michelle Allen | Morgane | |
Yvan Bienvenue | Histoires à mourir d'amour | |
Claude Poissant | Si tu meurs, je te tue | |
Jean-Pierre Ronfard | Cinq études | |
1995 | Carole Fréchette | Les Quatre Morts de Marie |
Jean-Marc Dalpé | Lucky Lady | |
Suzanne Lebeau | Contes d'enfants réels | |
Michèle Magny | Marina, le dernier rose aux joues | |
1996 | Normand Chaurette | Le Passage de l'Indiana |
Suzanne Lebeau | Salvador – La Montagne, l'Enfant et la Mangue | |
Wajdi Mouawad | Alphonse | |
1997 | Yvan Bienvenue | Dits et Inédits |
Jasmine Dubé | La Bonne Femme | |
Marie-Line Laplante | Une tache sur la lune | |
Robert Marinier | L'Insomnie | |
Larry Tremblay | Ogre – Cornemuse | |
1998 | François Archambault | 15 secondes |
Serge Boucher | Motel Hélène | |
Olivier Choinière | Le Bain des raines | |
Carole Fréchette | La Peau d'Élisa | |
Suzanne Lebeau | L'Ogrelet | |
1999 | Jean-Marc Dalpé | Il n'y a que l'amour |
Carole Fréchette | Les Sept Jours de Simon Labrosse | |
René Gingras | D'Avila | |
Michel Tremblay | Encore une fois, si vous permettez |
Year [2] | Author | Title |
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2000 | Wajdi Mouawad | Littoral |
Geneviève Billette | Crime contre l'humanité | |
Serge Boucher | 24 Poses | |
Jasmine Dubé | L'Arche de Noémie | |
Lise Vaillancourt | Le petit dragon and La balade de Fannie et Carcassonne | |
2001 | Normand Chaurette | Le Petit Köchel |
François Archambault | Code 99 | |
Réjane Charpentier | Un Autre Monde | |
Michel Ouellette | Requiem | |
2002 | Daniel Danis | Le Langue-à-Langue des chiens de roche |
Carole Fréchette | Jean et Béatrice | |
Wajdi Mouawad | Rêves | |
Reynald Robinson | L'Hôtel des Horizons | |
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Le rire de la mer | |
2003 | Jean-Rock Gaudreault | Deux pas vers les étoiles |
François Archambault | La société des loisirs | |
François Létourneau | Cheech | |
Wajdi Mouawad | Incendies | |
Jean-Pierre Ronfard | Écriture pour le théâtre, tome III | |
2004 | Emma Haché | L'intimité |
Franco Catanzariti | Sahel | |
Alexis Martin | Bureaux | |
Jean-Frédéric Messier | Au moment de sa disparition | |
Reynald Robinson | La salle des loisirs | |
2005 | Geneviève Billette | Le Pays des genoux |
Jean-Rock Gaudreault | Pour ceux qui croient que la Terre est ronde | |
François Godin | Louisiane Nord | |
Marie-Christine Lê-Huu | Jouliks | |
2006 | Évelyne de la Chenelière | Désordre public |
Olivier Choinière | Venise-en-Québec | |
Jean-Marc Dalpé | Août: un repas à la campagne | |
Reynald Robinson | Blue Bayou, la maison de l’étalon | |
2007 | Daniel Danis | Le chant du Dire-Dire |
Sébastien Harrisson | Floes et D’Alaska | |
Steve Laplante | Le Long de la Principale | |
Suzanne Lebeau | Souliers de sable | |
Wajdi Mouawad | Assoiffés | |
2008 | Jennifer Tremblay | La liste |
Yvan Bienvenue | La vie continue | |
Carole Fréchette | Serial Killer et autres pièces courtes | |
Catherine Mavrikakis | Omaha Beach | |
Wajdi Mouawad | Le soleil ni la mort ne peuvent se regarder en face | |
2009 | Suzanne Lebeau | Le bruit des os qui craquent |
Évelyne de la Chenelière | Les pieds des anges | |
François Godin | Je suis d'un would be pays | |
Olivier Kemeid | L'Énéide | |
Louis-Dominique Lavigne | Glouglou |
Year [2] | Author | Title |
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2010 | David Paquet | Porc-épic |
Geneviève Billette | Les ours dorment enfin | |
Évelyne de la Chenelière | L’imposture | |
Emma Haché | Trafiquée | |
Gilles Poulin-Denis | Rearview | |
2011 | Normand Chaurette | Ce qui meurt en dernier |
Steve Gagnon | La montagne rouge (SANG) | |
Pierre-Luc Lasalle | Judith aussi | |
Étienne Lepage | L'enclos de l'éléphant | |
Wajdi Mouawad | Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons | |
2012 | Geneviève Billette | Contre le temps |
Simon Boudreault | D pour Dieu? | |
Fabien Cloutier | Billy (Les jours de hurlement) | |
Évelyne de la Chenelière | La chair et autres fragments de l'amour | |
Philippe Ducros | Dissidents | |
2013 | Fanny Britt | Bienveillance |
Michel Marc Bouchard | Christine, la reine-garçon | |
Olivier Choinière | Nom de domaine | |
Véronique Côté | Tout ce qui tombe | |
Érika Tremblay-Roy | Petite vérité inventée | |
2014 | Carole Fréchette | Small Talk |
François Archambault | Tu te souviendras de moi | |
Simon Boudreault | As is (tel quel) | |
Olivier Kemeid | Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle | |
Étienne Lepage | Histoires pour faire des cauchemars | |
2015 | Fabien Cloutier | Pour réussir un poulet |
Simon Boudreault | En cas de pluie, aucun remboursement | |
Jean-Rock Gaudreault | Jouez, Monsieur Molière! | |
Annick Lefebvre | J'accuse | |
Olivier Sylvestre | La beauté du monde | |
2016 | Wajdi Mouawad | Inflammation du verbe vivre |
Hervé Bouchard | Le faux pas de l'actrice dans sa traîne | |
Michel Marc Bouchard | La divine illusion | |
Sébastien David | Les haut-parleurs | |
Olivier Kemeid | Five Kings : l'histoire de notre chute | |
2017 | Sébastien David | Dimanche napalm |
Nathalie Boisvert | Antigone au printemps | |
Emma Haché | Exercice de l'oubli | |
Suzanne Lebeau | Trois petites sœurs | |
Kevin McCoy | Norge | |
2018 | Anne-Marie Olivier | Venir au monde |
Christine Beaulieu | J'aime Hydro | |
Steve Gagnon | La montagne blanche | |
Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers | Invisibles | |
Michel Tremblay | Enfant insignifiant! | |
2019 | Mishka Lavigne | Havre |
Évelyne de la Chenelière | La vie utile, précédé de Errance et tremblements | |
Rachel Graton | La nuit du 4 au 5 | |
Lisa L'Heureux | Et si un soir | |
Annick Lefebvre | ColoniséEs |
Year | Author | Title | Ref |
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2020 | Martin Bellemare | Cœur minéral | [3] |
Le Collectif Aalaapi (Louisa Naluiyuk, Akinisie Novalinga, Mélodie Duplessis, Audrey Alasuak and Samantha Leclerc) | Aalaapi, faire silence pour entendre quelque chose de beau | [4] | |
Suzie Bastien | Sucré seize (Huit filles) | ||
Olivier Choinière | Zoé | ||
Claude Guilmain | AmericanDream.ca : L'intégrale | ||
2021 | Mishka Lavigne | Copeaux | [5] |
Rébecca Déraspe | Combattre le why-why | [6] | |
Emma Haché | Johnny | ||
Jean-Philippe Lehoux | Bande de bouffons | ||
Émilie Monnet | Okinum | ||
2022 | David Paquet | Le poids des fourmis | [7] |
Caroline Bélisle | Les remugles, ou La danse nuptiale est une langue morte | [8] | |
Nadia Girard Eddahia | Disgrâce | ||
Liliane Gougeon Moisan | L'Art de vivre | ||
Marie-Claude Verdier | Seeker | ||
2023 | Mathieu Gosselin | Gros gars | [9] |
Martin Bellemare | Charlie, du vent derrière le nombril | [10] | |
Rébecca Déraspe | Les Glaces | ||
Nathalie Doummar | Mama | ||
Soleil Launière | Akuteu | ||
2024 | Sarah Berthiaume | Wollstonecraft | [11] |
Olivier Choinière | La dernière cassette : Un portrait d’André Brassard | [12] | |
Isabelle Hubert | Rose | ||
Geneviève Labelle, Mélodie Noël Rousseau | Ciseaux | ||
Johanne Parent | Ornithorynques |
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