Michel Marc Bouchard

Scott Duchesne (University of Guelph)

Ed. by Glen Nichols, Mount Allison University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 2 Feb 1958
Activity 1981-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

Primary

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Playwright / Dramatist
Theatre Director

Resources

Bouchard's Works

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Michel Marc Bouchard was born in the Lac-Saint-Jean village of Saint Coeur-de-Marie, about two hours north of Quebec City, Canada, on 2 February 1958. The experiences of his rural upbringing would figure prominently in his work; his plays rarely stray far from the complex physical, social, psychological and emotional terrain of small-town Québec, and the place, if any, of

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in that terrain. In a 2004 interview he recalls, “I was a curious child. I knew I was different from a very young age. I can't say I knew that I was gay, but I was aware that my impulses, my desires, were different … I came from a little town in the 1960s and the way to raise a kid was not with a psychologist's book, but with a strike in the face.” The often-brutal repression of “abnormal”…

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Citation: Duchesne, Scott. "Michel Marc Bouchard". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 April 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5364, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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