Evelyne de la Chenelière (born 1975) is a Canadian writer and actress, a leading figure in contemporary drama. Her play Désordre public, won the Governor General’s Award for French-language drama in 2006; in 2010, Les Pieds des anges received the SACD Francophone Drama Prize and the Comédie-Française Readers’ Choice Award, and in 2011, her play Bashir Lazhar was adapted by Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar), and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her latest play, Lumières, Lumières, Lumières was performed at the Comédie française in 2026, in Paris.
Moving gracefully from theater to fiction, she published her first novel, La concordance des temps, in 2011. Les Traits difficiles, her second literary work, published in 2024 by Les Herbes rouges, was exceptionally well received, having won the most prestigious Canadian literary prize, the Grand prix du livre de Montréal.
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