Jean-Claude Germain
Template:Use dmy dates Jean-Claude Germain (18 June 1939 – 24 April 2025) was a Canadian playwright, author, journalist and historian.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Life and career
Germain contributed to Le Petit Journal, to Victor-Lévy Beaulieu's Dimensions magazine and to Maclean's Magazine, and was the senior editor to Le Québec littéraire. He wrote a monthly column in l'aut'journal. In 1969 he founded the company Le Théâtre du Même Nom which became the Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui of which he became the director in 1972. He also taught at the National Theatre School of Canada.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He was married to Nicole Leblanc until her death in May 2017. <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Germain died on 24 April 2025, at the age of 85.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Published works
- Le roi des mises à bas prix (1972)
- Diguidi, diguidi, ha! ha! ha! Si les Sansoucis s'en soucient, ces Sansoucis-ci s'en soucieront-ils? Bien parler, c'est se respecter! (1972)
- Les tourtereaux : ou, La vieillesse frappe à l'aube (1974)
- Les sportifs et le droit (1975)
- Les hauts et les bas de la vie d' une diva Sarah Ménard par aux-mêmes : une monologuerie bouffe (1976)
- Un pays dont la devise est je m'oublie : théâtre (1976)
- Les faux brillants de Félix-Gabriel Marchand : paraphrase (1977)
- Seguro dos desportistas contra os riscos de acidentes (1978)
- L'école des rêves : théâtre (1979)
- Mamours et conjugat : scènes de la vie amoureuse québécoise : théâtre (1979)
- Les nuits de l'Indiva : une mascapade (1983)
- A Canadian play/une plaie canadienne : théâtre (1983)
- Le Feuilleton de Montréal (1994)
- Le miroir aux tartuffes : un charivari québécois : théâtre (1998)
- De tous les plaisirs, lire est le plus fou (2001)
- Rue Fabre, centre de l'univers : historiettes de mon jeune âge (2007)
Awards
- 2001: Order of La Pléiade
References
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- 1939 births
- 2025 deaths
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- Journalists from Montreal
- Writers from Montreal
- Historians from Quebec
- French-language Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian journalists
- 21st-century Canadian journalists
- Canadian male journalists
- 20th-century Canadian historians