Marie Laberge

Marie Laberge (born November 29, 1950) is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
Biography
She was born in Quebec City and studied dance with Ludmilla Chiriaeff. Laberge began the study of journalism at Laval University but entered the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec soon afterwards. She began work in comedy before branching out into playwriting, staging productions and teaching drama. From 1977 to 1980, Laberge was administrator for the Théâtre du Trident at Quebec City. From 1978 to 1981, she was administrator for the Centre d'essai des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD); she was president of CEAD from 1987 to 1989.
Laberge published a number of poetry collections during the 1960s that were generally not as well-received critically as her other work. Selected poetry from this period was published as Aux mouvances du temps: Poésie 1961-1971 (1981).
Her play C'était avant la guerre à l'Anse à Gilles won the Governor General's Award for French-language drama in 1981. In the same year, the play Éva et Évelyne was awarded second prize in the short production category by the Communauté radiophonique des programmes de langue française. Her plays are written in the way that people in Quebec speak French everyday as opposed to a more literary formal style of speech. In 1988, the French summer school at McGill University hosted an international colloquium on her work. In 2002, Laberge was named a Chevalier in the French Order of La Pléiade. She was named a Chevalier in the National Order of Quebec in 2004. In the same year, she became an Officier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Laberge wrote the lyrics for the Celine Dion song "Le temps qui compte" which was included on the D'elles album.
Selected works
L'Homme gris, play (1986), earned the author the grade of Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Oublier, play (1987)
Aurèlie, ma soeur, play (1988)
Juillet, novel (1989)
Le Faucon, play (1991)
Quelques adieux, novel (1992), received the prize of the readers of Elle-Québec
Le poids des ombres, novel (1994)
Annabelle, novel (1996), received the Prix des Libraires du Québec in 1996 and the Ludger-Duvernay Prize in 1997
La cérémonie des anges, novel (1998), received the Prix des Libraires du Québec in 1999
Gabrielle (2000), first volume in the trilogy Le Goût du bonheur
Adélaïde, novel (2001), second volume in the trilogy Le Goût du bonheur, received the Prix du Grand Public Salon du livre - La Presse
Florent, novel (2002), third volume in the trilogy Le Goût du bonheur, received the Prix du Grand Public Salon du livre - La Presse
Sans rien ni personne, novel (2007), received the Grand Prix littéraire Archambault
Revenir de loin, novel (2011), received the Prix du Grand Public Salon du livre - La Presse
References
External links
Laberge at Athabasca University, French-Canadian writers
1950 births
Living people
Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French
Canadian novelists in French
Governor General's Award-winning dramatists
Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Knights of the National Order of Quebec
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Canadian women novelists
20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian women writers
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian women writers
Writers from Quebec City
Université Laval alumni