François Archambault

Tanya Margaret d’Angers (University of Toronto)

Ed. by Glen Nichols, Mount Allison University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 13 Feb 1968
Activity 1988-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Archambault's Works

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François Archambault is primarily a dramatist, occasionally directing premières of his work. He has written seventeen plays to-date, some including lyrics (

La Montagne

[

The Mountain

] in 1997 and

Code 99

in 1999), and one,

C'est devenu gros

[

It's Grown Big

], co-authored with Marie-Hélène Thibault in 2000. His work has been translated into English, Scottish [sic], German, and Italian, and his versatility of style includes comedy, satire, dramatic comedy [sic], drama, poetic theatre, and allegory (www.aqad.qc.ca). The final category of “other” noted on this website articulates the tenuous line between comedy and tragedy, hilarity and unease for which he is noted.

Born in Montreal (13 February 1968), Archambault majored in French Studies at the Univérsité de Montréal before going

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Citation: d’Angers, Tanya Margaret. "François Archambault". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 September 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5396, accessed 21 November 2024.]