Garneau, Michel

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GARNEAU, Michel

GARNEAU, Michel. Canadian, b. 1939. Genres: Plays/Screenplays. Career: Poet, composer, singer, and playwright. Radio and television announcer and scriptwriter, Ontario and Quebec, mid-1950s; writer, 1958-; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, television announcer and scriptwriter, 1960-68; singer in a band called Les Cailloux; freelance broadcaster from Paris, France, 1967-68. Publications: Eau de pluie, 1958; Langage, 1962; (with P. Chamberlain, G. Cote, N. Drassel and A. Major) Le Pays, 1963; Vous pouvez m'acheter pour 69 ct., 1972; Blues des elections, 1972; l'Animalhumain, 1972; Moments, 1973; J'aime la litterature, elle est utile, 1974; Politique, 1974; Sur le matelas, 1974; La Chanson d'amour de cul, 1974; Quatre a quatre, 1974, trans by C. Bedard and K. Turnbull as Four to Four, 1979; Strauss et Pesant (et Rosa), 1974, trans by A. Ravel as Strauss and Pesant (and Rosa); La plus belle ile, 1975; Les Petits Chevals amoureux (poetry), 1977, trans by R. McGee as Small Horses and Intimate Beasts, 1985; Abries, desabriees, suivi de L'Usage du coeur dans le domaine reel, 1979; Elegie au genocide des naspodes, 1979; Poesies completes, 1955-87 (poetry collection), 1988; Le phenix de neige (poetry), 1992. PLAYS: Sur le matelas, 1972; Quatre a quatre, 1973; Le Bonhomme Sept-Heures, 1974; La Chanson d'amour de cul, 1974; Strauss et Pesant (et Rosa), 1974; Abries,/desabriees, 1975; L'Usage du coeur dans le domaine reel, 1975; Les Voyagements, 1975; Les Celebrations, 1976; Rien que la memoire, 1976; Gilgamesh: Theatre, 1976; Adidou, Adidouce, 1977; Les Voyagements, suivi de Rien que la memoire, 1977; Les Celebrations, suivi de Adidou, Adidouce: Theatre, 1977; (trans. and adaptor) Macbeth, 1978; Emilie ne sera plus jamais cueillie par l'anemone, 1981, trans. by L. Gaboriau as Emilie Will Never Again Feel the Breath of the Delphinium; Petitpetant et le monde, suivi de Le Groupe, 1982; Les Neiges suivi de Le Bonhomme Sept-Heures, 1984; Les guerriers, 1989, trans. by L. Gaboriau as Warriors, 1990; Mademoiselle Rouge, 1989, trans. by L. Gaboriau as Miss Red and the Wolves; Heliotropes, 1994, trans. by L. Gaboriau as Morning Glories. Address: c/o VLB Editeur, 1010 La Gauchetiere E., Montreal, QC, Canada H2L 2N5.

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