Suzanne Aubry

Suzanne Aubry (born 1956) is a Canadian novelist, screenwriter and playwright.[1]

The novelist Suzanne Aubry at the Salon du livre de Montréal (2017)

Suzanne Aubry was born in Ottawa. Both of her parents, Claude Aubry and Paule Saint-Onge, were novelists. She received a diploma in playwriting from the National Theatre School of Canada. Her play La nuit des p'tits couteaux was nominated for a Governor General's Award in 1987. She wrote the screenplay for the 1994 feature film Meurtre en musique, directed by Gabriel Pelletier. With Louise Pelletier, Suzanne Aubry wrote the screenplays for the television series Sauve qui peut! on TVA, À nous deux! and Mon meilleur ennemi [1] on Radio-Canada. Before that, she wrote episodes of Manon [2] on Radio-Canada. and La Maison Deschênes, the first soap opera for Télévision Quatre Saisons (TQS).

As a critic and columnist, Aubry has contributed to Le Devoir and the Cahiers de théâtre Jeu. She has taught playwriting at the Institut national de l'image et du son, the Université du Québec à Montréal and the National Theatre School of Canada. She was the President of the Société des auteurs en cinéma et télévision (SARTEC) from 1996 to 2000 [1] and has been a member of the Board of Directors of l'Union des Écrivaines et des Écrivains québécois (UNEQ) since 2011. She was elected Chair of l'UNEQ in 2017.

In 2006, Suzanne Aubry published her first novel Le fort intérieur, which was nominated for the Grand prix de la relève littéraire Archambault. Since then, she has written seven books in the Fanette series about an Irish orphan exiled to 19th century Quebec.[1] The series has sold more than 100,000 copies [3] and the first two volumes of Fanette are available in English.

Her 9th novel, Ma vie est entre tes mains, was published in 2015 by Libre Expression.[4] The French publisher Robert Laffont has bought the rights to the novel, which was published in France in 2016 under the title Ma vie entre tes mains. It was then nominated for the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie 2016, presided over by the writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. The novel was also published in a paperback format by Pocket in 2018. Aubry has since published two other novels, Je est une autre and La Cueva, which were both enthusiastically received by the readers and the press.

Following in her father's footsteps, Suzanne Aubry recently adapted his book Le Violon magique et autres légendes du Canada français (originally published in 1968 by les Éditions Des deux Rives). The new edition is entitled Le Violon magique - Contes et légendes du Québec (published by les Éditions Québec Amérique) and features illustrations of the artist Saul Field, which were part of the original edition.

Suzanne Aubry has just completed a new play, Recyclage, and is currently working on a novel for young readers. The author lives in Montreal.