Robert Marinier

Robert Marinier
Born	1954 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	dramatist, television writer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1980s-present
Notable works	L'Insomnie, Météo+

Robert Marinier (born 1954 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian stage actor, playwright and television writer, who was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 1997 Governor General's Awards for his play L'Insomnie.^[1] For the same play, he was also a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actor in a Play, Mid-Size Theatre division, in 1997.^[2]

His 2021 book Un conte de l'apocalypse was the winner of the Trillium Book Award for French Prose in 2022.^[3]

He has also been a television writer for the series The Smoggies, Météo+^[4] and Les Bleus de Ramville.

Plays

1979 - Lafortune et Lachance
1980 - La Tante
1982 - L'Inconception
1984 - Les Rogers (with Robert Bellefeuille and Jean-Marc Dalpé)^[5]
1988 - En camisoles
1989 - Deuxième souffle (with Dan Lalande)
1993 - À la gauche de Dieu
1994 - L'Insomnie
1997 - But for the Grace of God... (English translation of À la gauche de Dieu)^[6]
1999 - Le golfeur et la mort
1999 - Contes sudburois (with Jean-Marc Dalpé, Robert Dickson, Paulette Gagnon, Michael Gauthier and Brigitte Haentjens)^[7]
2000 - Big Crunch
2000 - Univers
2000 - Je me souviens
2005 - Épinal

^ "G-G short list proves puzzling Urquhart selection an early favourite, but where's Richler, Ricci, Tremblay?". The Globe and Mail, October 23, 1997.
^ "Major Dora Mavor Moore nominations". Toronto Star, September 12, 1997.
^ Deborah Dundas, "Toronto writer Ann Shin wins $20,000 Trillium Prize for North Korean novel ‘The Last Exiles’". Toronto Star, June 21, 2022.
^ "Météo + de retour pour une deuxième saison". L'Express Ottawa, October 8, 2008.
^ "The rogue beneath the sensitive male". Ottawa Citizen, June 25, 1987.
^ "The truth about illicit love: Robert Marinier's play about infidelities and middle-aged passions resurfaces in a new English-language translation". Ottawa Citizen, January 12, 1997.
^ "French theatre festival offers 15-day smorgasbord of plays". Ottawa Citizen, June 3, 1999.