Mishka Lavigne

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Mishka Lavigne is a Canadian playwright. She is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language drama, for Havre at the 2019 Governor General's Awards [1] and for Copeaux at the 2021 Governor General's Awards. [2]

A graduate of the University of Ottawa, [3] she was the first writer based outside of Quebec to win a GG in the drama category since Emma Haché in 2004. [1]

She was one of the winners, alongside Christophe Bernard, of the Prix Québec-Ontario from the Salon du livre de Toronto in 2017 for her first published play, Cinéma. [4]

Her English-language play Shorelines was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2024 Governor General's Awards. [5]

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